[Server-devel] automatic OS updates from school server

2010-05-10 Thread Daniel Drake
In my opinion one of the bigger holes left in the school server is the fact that we can't push OS updates to the XOs. And the team here in La Rioja keep asking about it, Actually the hard work is all done (XS has updates server, XO has update client, both work well), the only missing bit is a

Re: [Server-devel] automatic OS updates from school server

2010-05-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: In my opinion one of the bigger holes left in the school server is the fact that we can't push OS updates to the XOs. And the team here in La Rioja keep asking about it, Agreed - it's a major item. Actually the hard work is

Re: [Server-devel] Mass deployment thoughts

2010-05-10 Thread Tim Moody
I've been thinking about automating larger deployments as well, though more the initial install than subsequent updates. As an experiment I put together a cobbler installation server on FC12 (https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/) and use etherboot (http://etherboot.org/wiki/index.php) to boot