I'm working on a project where I plan on deploying linux on CD-ROM's to everyone in our company so they can reboot their boxes to Linux at night, it's windows during the day. Then during the night, I will be running a CFD code that use MPICH, and then eject the cdrom and reboot their machines in the mornings. The choice to go with the CD was because 1) There are already 100 or so machines deployed and I thought it would be easier to send out CD's than to repartition or modify them, 2) I know I can eject it and do a automatic reboot, which should result in windows 3) building a cd and booting from it is something my feable mind can almost understand.
I've printed out the diskless nodes how-to and plan on going through it. However, the one question I have is, is there a simple way to give each box a different name. I'll use dhcp for ip addresses, but how will it get a name? Do I need to make x number of different CD's, each so it boots as a different host name? I'm not an admin type, just an engineer type trying to better utilize company resources. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Any other solutions would be appreciated also. Thanks. Todd -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
