Michael, I'm not sure what your software is/or does, so this comment might be totally off the wall, but have you considered using the web to 'distribute' your application?
If you are building software that accesses a centralized store of information and it can be done within the relatively simple confines of a browser based interface, then you don't really have to worry about distributing your application at all. Changes can be done on the server side and all clients (browsers) connecting in immediately see all new changes... Of course if you are building the new Photoshop or something then this makes no sense. :) Rich Michael O'Donnell wrote: > > 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. > *****************************************************************
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