> > > This depends only on your server. If it is capable to serve 50 > > > simultaneous, Unattended will do. If you use an old Pentium > > > server, you will have trouble to serve more than one clients at a > > > time. > > > > I don't really think it matters how fast your machine is this case. > > Unattended does not do multicast, so installing 50 machines > > simultaneously is not a good idea. > > I think you are wrong: Unattended does nothing. It depends on > Samba (in case of a UNIX/Linux Server) or the built-in file share > functions (in > case of a windows server). Unattended only > performs the initial magic on the target pc; the transfer of the > os installation media files) is done by Samba or Windows Server. > > And both Samba and Windows Server DEFINITELY scale with > their hardware.
The speed of the machine *will* make a difference.. But that cap will not be hit as soon as the one caused by trying to copy 50 Windows XP CDs to 50 different PCs on the same network.. (Essentially the first part of the install.) Once past that part - sure - everything should be a little faster - until something like Microsoft Office install starts where it is more likely it will take enough time so that many machines are doing it at the same time. It's a question of bandwidth really at that point in my experience. I used to install Windows NT workstations this way (many moons ago) and you could only get so many on a 10Mbit network. It improved with 100Mbit, but by then I was using Ghost (not multicast however) and ran into the same problem but transferring an entire image. At least Ghost images can synch up when you have many going - don't know if copying many different little files to dozens of separate machines will experience the same phenomenon - I would guess "yes". -- Shenan T. Stanley ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
