* Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001220 03:43] wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:15:40AM -0500, Mike Nowlin wrote:
> > I'm planning on building a fairly big machine to do world builds on to
> > keep these machines (30-ish) all synced to the same OS version, probably
> > with weekly installworlds on them.
>
> Have you had a look at PXE? Basically, each time the machine reboots
> you can have it reimage itself from a master server. See
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/
>
> for details. Your NIC has to support it, and I don't know how long the
> reimaging process takes over 100Mbit, but it's probably less maintenance
> effort for you in the long run.
Takes 5-15 minutes per box. :)
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