Watch out for FTP timeouts (15 minutes?) when selecting packages by hand from an uber-large collection, for those rather picky installees. Happened on quite a few instaparties... :)
Shachar Tal Verint Systems -----Original Message----- From: Maor Meir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:22 AM To: Ez-Aton Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Haifux] Install server requirments In my limited expirince he simplest method for runing the network install is probably FTP not NFS. FTP usually gives much less trouble and the testing we(Alon Shachar and myself) were also done with ftp installations. to the best of my knowledge redhat install does not know how to read a kickstart file from an FTP server only HTTP(and possibly NFS) this isn't really necessary as we can easily have many floppies and CDs with our kickstart file available. To have kickstart point to a domain we obviously need to have a working DNS server running not only the basic DHCP. Do I understand you are planing some kind of load balancing on two NICs? server specifications must be finalized ASAP, so we can burn our CDs which we would like to have a copy of various kickstart files. (one of them to be used on network installs during insta-party) these include: server names IP address if necessary install source directories. It would be nice if the install server would have a copy of our extra CD (update CD does seem to be an adequate name) So that if necessary it as welll could be installed. If its running an NFS one could simply mount it and treat it no diffrently form a CD-ROM. So we need to make clear which of the following services will be on the install server: FTP/NFS/HTTP/DHCP/DNS what will the domain name/IP address of the server be. location of RedHat install. I would not be surprised if some of the machines would not play with the dhcp server(it has been known to happen), It would probably be a good idea to set aside some of the IP address for manual configuration. Meir. P.s just been paranoid, what kind of a server are we talking about? Hard-disk and RAM? My bit of math, lets assume an install requires 2GB of data to be transfered from server to client. and this somehow spreads out over one hour. So 20 (non synchronized) installations would require 40GB/hour stream. Which is 11MB/sec, this might be hard on an old hard-drive. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This electronic message contains information from Verint Systems, which may be privileged and confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic message in error, please notify us by replying to this email. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
