Thanks for the advice, Michael. I'm new on it but I think it will be really usefull not too far away.
Regards. Fernando On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 02:43, Michael Mansour <m...@npgx.com.au> wrote: > Hi Fernando, > > > Hi everybody! > > > > I'm really tired of wasting cd's and dvd's so I decided to use the > boot.iso > > > > ( > ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/54/x86_64/images/boot.iso) > to install my server. But when I filled up the two fields "ftp server" and > "directory" (or something like that, I don't remember exactly), I got an > error. Looking in the 2nd terminal (Alt+F2) I realized that there was an > error > resolving the name ftp.scientificlinux.org. I replace the server name by > the > server IP address ($host ftp.scientificlinux.org) and everything is > working. > > > > Isn't that a bug?? Anybody use/care about network installation??? > > I haven't used a CD/DVD installation system to install Linux for many > years, > all I use is a network/kickstart installation. Such installations are fast, > easily changeable, "human-proof" (you get the exact install base each and > every time), and easy to maintain. > > In the early days I invested about 4-5 months of my spare time in scripting > production builds of my environments (over 5,500 lines of code) and ever > since > I've only been tweaking those scripts for newer releases and builds. > > You may notice after you perform a CD/DVD install you end up having a file > in > the root home directory called "anaconda-ks.cfg" which can be used to > kickstart the same build again. > > I would suggest if you're going to perform a lot of Linux builds you don't > bother with CD's/DVD's and just spend some time learning how to do network > installs and use them from then on. You won't regret it. > > Regards, > > Michael. > > > It's my DNS' error?? > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > Regards. > > Fernando. > > > > -- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Fernando Campos Del Pozo > > Becario Super-Computación - Departamento de Física Teórica > > Facultad de Ciencias / Módulo 15 (C-XI) / Despacho 512 > > Tlf.: +34-914974893 > > e-mail: fernando.cam...@uam.es > ------- End of Original Message ------- > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fernando Campos Del Pozo Becario Super-Computación - Departamento de Física Teórica Facultad de Ciencias / Módulo 15 (C-XI) / Despacho 512 Tlf.: +34-914974893 e-mail: fernando.cam...@uam.es
