We use the same install and configuration system for both servers and desktops (we are old school -- have a lot of linux desktops, and aren't just a server site).
Matt Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that the prevailing trend is to merely get a machine going enough to > get it on the network, then hand it off to the relevant configuration > management platform. That is what we do. The initial install is via PXE, and except for clusters (where there is a PXE config for everything on that network) the person doing the install has to manual choose between the choices. Once the appropriate install starts/gets to the right stage, the configuration management system kicks in. If the system needed something custom at install time, the configuration management system generates a system-specifc configuration for PXE book/OS install (custom partitioning, etc). We used to do that a lot more, that is pretty rare now -- almost everything has the same basic configuration, and everything else is layered on that. With VMs, things are slightly different -- we start with a template, and then the configuration management system takes over. --david ps: our PXE choices include (in addition to the real OS choices) bootable options for memtest, disk diags, diskless linux for dealing with unbootable disks, etc. DBAN isn't a PXE boot option :) _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
