On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 07:28:19PM -0500, Brad Fulda wrote: > Hey All, > > We have in our lab 144 new IBM HS-20 Blades running RH 9. All I need > to be able to do is to load a OS across the network. We have looked > at Xcat, Ghost, and now this, System Imager. Xcat offers way more > than we need. Ghost still requires you to use "floppies" and SI > seems to be the ticket. > What I was wondering is "specifically" can SI be used for this? (it > appears to ) What barriers might I come across? I want static IP's > but I was reading that I needed to have a DHCP srver running. What > do I need to do to allow for static IP's? Can I make a master image > that is custom for each system. Meaning, I dont want to go back to > each new system I just made and manually change host names, etc. Is > there also a how to mini on the setup specifically for these blades > we have? Any help will be very much appreciated. thanks
Just a clarification -- you're using net-boot but not DHCP? i.e. there is nothing on the local disk, and you want to load the entire OS over the network, but you do not want to use the network to assign hostnames and IP addresses? Not knowing anything about your setup or constraints, I can't say anything to that but it seems a little odd to me... Would you mind saying why? In answer to your question, I have seen SI layouts that use something like CVSup or some other homebrew scripts for each host to pull out host-specific information (such as IP, hostname, individualized iptables rules, yadda yadda). I'm trying to do one sorta like that (but havn't really gotten it rolling yet). There's also the SI overrides, but I don't know much about them. -ben -- Ben Hartshorne email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.hartshorne.net
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