I'm looking for an automated software installation mechanism - I want to be able to deliver software to my customers in such a way that they can install it on multiple machines as painlessly as possible.
For example, one scheme I've heard of (but have been unable to find at scyld.com or anywhere else) was reportedly developed by the Scyld Beowolf folks and it sounded very interesting - you could supposedly insert a Scyld CD into each one of a bunch of machines on your net, boot each machine from its CD, designate one machine as Master, and they'd all then cooperatively initialize themselves, install the software onto their local disks and start cranking as a Beowolf cluster. Although I'm not working with Beowolf I am involved with clustered systems so such a scheme sounds like it might be of interest - can anybody supply any details, or recommend any other approach to automated, net-based, multi-system installation? ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
