That's why I rather not using FTP installs at all. Ez.
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:50, Tal, Shachar wrote: > 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]
