Niclas Sodergard DC wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I taught I would share an idea I tested the other day.
>
> Here at the University we have a number of public Linux machines running
> 6.1. It was now time to upgrade all of those to our own modified version
> of RH6.2. Since they are public we don't allow people to boot from the
> floppy drive and we have them "protected" with a BIOS-password. It is
> quite a boring task to go to every machine and enter the bios password,
> insert the kickstart floppy and reinstall the machine and then disallow
> booting from the floppy again.
> The solution was to take the initial ramdisk and kernel from RHs
> bootnet.img and copy them over the network to each machine, modify the
> lilo.conf and reboot. When the machine came up it automatically started a
> kickstart installation and 15 minutes later I had a newly installed
> machine. I have tried this with a classroom of 18 machines and it worked
> perfectly.
> So now we don't even have to go to the location to reinstall. Just a
> simple script that takes care of the whole process.
Very Cool. I was wondering if something like this could work. Thanks for
the information.
Bret
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