Is that a PXE boot-type solution Sandy? I looked into the idea a while back, it still seems like an awesome solution for renderfarms. I'd love to hear more.
DAN On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Sandy Sutherland < sandy.mailli...@gmail.com> wrote: > At Triggerfish my IT guy had setup a kickstart sytem that deployed both a > Linux setup to our render nodes and a windows one to the workstations. If > you like I can find out the procedure to do it. It did work very well, > especially on the Linux side, we could build a render node complete in > about 10 - 15 mins ready to render again. > > S. > > > On 16/05/2013 19:04, Francois Lord wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> In my never ending quest to find a way to install Softimage automatically >> and simply on all machines, I have yet again hit a road block. >> Last year, after several days of failed attempts, I resorted to >> installing it manually on my machine and copying the folder on the other >> machines. I had to copy the ProductInformation.pit file from C:\Program >> Data and I had to run the runonce.bat file. And then all was well and >> dandy. Easily scriptable and no human intervention required. >> >> This year however, things seem different. When I do the same, Softimage >> can't find a license. This is where the ProductInformation.pit file was >> required last year, but it seems it's not enough now. >> >> I noticed there is a new License.env file in the Application\bin folder. >> But it contains the right informations about our license server since I ran >> the installer on my machine. I don't know if it has anything to do with all >> this. >> >> Any one has bits of info on this? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> Francois >> > >
