Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to > each > >machine in the farm, without having to go to each of the remaining 199 > and configure > >it by hand. Someone told them that RH made this easy, and no other > >dist could do it!
> Well...there are many many ways to do it....and it depends on what the > setup is > How homogeneous are the machines? They are going to be almost identical. > for the most part....if the hardware on em isn't terribly strange... > it would be littl emore than an issue of mirroring 1 hard drive image > over to > all of the machines > With a network setup that could be quite easy.... > Hell I just recently was moving from one PC to another.... > and I did a "Drag and Drop"....just took out the hard drive and pu tit > in the new > machine and boom...up came linux once the BIOS was happy > (486/DX66 from a 486SX/25 system...differnt amount of RAM, diff vid > card...) > There is apcakage in debian that I have not played with but saw...which > allows you to setup > 1 computer andinstall the package,... > then it makes a boot disk...goto any machine..pop in the boot disk... > no install..instant workstation! > and it is setup to do everything the server can do (by default) > then come questions...is there going to be a single network filesystem? > for the most part (as per the FHS) > you should be able to share /usr beween all machines (assuming the same > rchitecture of course) > same for /home etc > Suposedly redhat kickstart is suposed to be able to automate this... > but with a tiny bit more work it should be very easily doable with > debian All that would work if you wanted to take the machines offline to do that, but these machines are going to be handling 30MB/min of streaming data for 6 months at a clip. There's no way that would work. :( > hmmm just a slightly evil thought.... > anyone tried > cat /dev/hda1 > /dev/hdb1 > assuming hda1 and hdb1 are similar partition sizes and types.... Tried it... doesnt work. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Nihil illegitemi carborvndvm. --anon ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
