bigger network!
Hello again, thank to everybody how help me during the installation in a bigger network. It took me a few days to get everything to run, but now I hope I can work on my normal job again. Dirk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian installation in a bigger network
We plan to install the debian distribution in the whole network. I was looking for a master installation script to run the installation process automatically from a nfs mounted directory or via ftp. Are there any solutions for that. We maintain a small network of Debian machines here, but have no master install script. We just run 'dftp' on each and select the packages we want. I suppose that if all machines had identical packages, you could just run 'dftp' once and then copy the .selected file around to each machine (or share it somehow) and call 'dftp --unpack'. We want to keep the computers also all together at the same installation level with rdist. But what about the specific directories /etc? Whe where thinking of installing one master debian system and to distribute new installed software over night to the other systems, so that on the other day all systems are again on the same level. As I said, installing new software can also install files in /ets and distributing /etc to the slave systems isn't a good idea. To manage config files and the like, we use cfengine. It takes a while to get the hang of and set up properly, but once done it really is a life saver. To build a new machine, we install the desired packages, edit the /etc/cron.daily/cfengine file to turn on CVS, and then run that script. Voila! We have another fully configured system that exactly matches all the others. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.01. For this and more, visit http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian installation in a bigger network
From: Dirk Luetjens dirk%plus We plan to install the debian distribution in the whole network. Well, I hope you get this via the list, Dirk. Please fix your mailer, it's not placing your domain name in your messages. I was looking for a master installation script to run the installation process automatically from a nfs mounted directory or via ftp. Are there any solutions for that. If you use the version of dpkg from the unstable directory, you can use the --get-selections and --set-selections flag to make all systems use the same package selections. This is not in the stable version yet. We want to keep the computers also all together at the same installation level with rdist. This is probably going to confuse dpkg. I don't have a good solution for this. We don't really support the push install yet. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian installation in a bigger network
Dirk Luetjens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 25 October 1996 13:10: We plan to install the debian distribution in the whole network. I was looking for a master installation script to run the installation process automatically from a nfs mounted directory or via ftp. Are there any solutions for that. We want to keep the computers also all together at the same installation level with rdist. But what about the specific directories /etc? Whe where thinking of installing one master debian system and to distribute new installed software over night to the other systems, so that on the other day all systems are again on the same level. As I said, installing new software can also install files in /ets and distributing /etc to the slave systems isn't a good idea. I have the same problem, and there's NO solution to it UNFORTUNATELY. You can use cfengine to keep configurations in synch, but not for packages. In my case, I have about 6 machines in a cluster, but they do NOT have the same packages installed. The only solution is to use dpkg in each and every one of them :-( :-( Carlos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian installation in a bigger network
Hello We plan to install the debian distribution in the whole network. I was looking for a master installation script to run the installation process automatically from a nfs mounted directory or via ftp. Are there any solutions for that. We want to keep the computers also all together at the same installation level with rdist. But what about the specific directories /etc? Whe where thinking of installing one master debian system and to distribute new installed software over night to the other systems, so that on the other day all systems are again on the same level. As I said, installing new software can also install files in /ets and distributing /etc to the slave systems isn't a good idea. Thank You very much for any help Dirk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
