Hello!
I taught I would share an idea I tested the other day.
Here at the University we have a number of public Linux machines running
6.1. It was now time to upgrade all of those to our own modified version
of RH6.2. Since they are public we don't allow people to boot from the
floppy drive and we have them "protected" with a BIOS-password. It is
quite a boring task to go to every machine and enter the bios password,
insert the kickstart floppy and reinstall the machine and then disallow
booting from the floppy again.
The solution was to take the initial ramdisk and kernel from RHs
bootnet.img and copy them over the network to each machine, modify the
lilo.conf and reboot. When the machine came up it automatically started a
kickstart installation and 15 minutes later I had a newly installed
machine. I have tried this with a classroom of 18 machines and it worked
perfectly.
So now we don't even have to go to the location to reinstall. Just a
simple script that takes care of the whole process.
Best regards,
Nickus - Systems Manager Linux @ Datacentralen at Åbo Akademi University
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