well the network speed will inevitably suffer, but how many people want the install anyway?
OTOH the install is going to produce bursts of activity - download one or more packages, rpm them, download a package, rpm it etc. rpm'ing involves basically uncompressing and untarring (although it is cpio IIRC), so that will produce a quiet spot on the network. Is it sufficient to say though, that I have done it between two computers on a 10M lan, so 4 or 5 on a 100M lan should work. On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:14:27 +1200 Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you think it would go for a half dozen simultaneous installs, Rob? > > And are you available on the 26th to help out? > > Cheers, Rik > > Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > > >>Re install network: what hardware do we need? Where from? (I could > >>bring some UTP, an 8port 100M switch and a power board). > >> > >I thought about this too post-post (;-) When you said harddrive install, > >did you mean opening each box to attach one temporarily? - Slow & > >guaranteed to introduce faults & more delays, if servicing a group, > >imho. Setting up a server (I thought you meant) is also unnecessary > >fuss, when everyone has a CD player (hopefully bootable) now. I just > >assumed you meant a networked harddrive, which we can easily make work, > >and a bottleneck. > > > >[Robert Fisher] > >Network installation is dead simple. > >You just copy the files to an ftp repository first and use a boot floppy on > >the install machine. > > > >I have done it several times. > > > >Saves burning CD's too. > > > They'll need to take them home for adding programs, I thought. > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
