Re: How do you deploy a new system ?

2004-02-23 Thread Marcel Hicking
--Sunday, February 22, 2004 20:55:38 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > What are you guys using to deploy new systems. In our env we are bringing up > one system every other week. So far, we've been using Red Hat and Kickstart. > We simply save the config on a floppy then boot from the CD and a few > minu

RE: How do you deploy a new system ?

2004-02-23 Thread Kaiser, Michael (ZIBP)
Hi > We just boot our new machines remotely and are done within seconds. > It's not too flexible compared with FAI, but installation and > maintenance > is _much_ simpler. as long as m23 is not capable of detecting and using hardware raid devices, it is far from being adopted as a viable alte

Re: How do you deploy a new system ?

2004-02-23 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 20:41:42 -0700, Michael Loftis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >et the latest available stable from http://mondorescue.org/ -- make sure >you satisfy its reqs, bzip2, afio, *NEWER* version of cdrecord (RH boxes >have HUGE problems there), and some others i know i'm forgetting. T

Re: How do you deploy a new system ?

2004-02-23 Thread Alex Borges
This is what i regard as the EASY way: Divide target boxes into hardware 'races' (all exactly-the-same hardware into one race). Install one debian per race. Partimage each race. Sync all boxes of each race with a partimage bootdisk, look into the dhcp logs to see the ip of each box. Script or do

Re: How do you deploy a new system ?

2004-02-23 Thread Rich Puhek
Marc Haber wrote: See the bugs I have filed against mondo regarding this, and notice that they are a few months old without any reply by the package maintainer. Greetings Marc One little quibble/question about this: should issues like this be reported to the Debian maintainer, or just reported to

Re: How do you deploy a new system ?

2004-02-23 Thread Donovan Baarda
G'day, From: "Rich Puhek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > One little quibble/question about this: should issues like this be > reported to the Debian maintainer, or just reported to whoever created > the software in the first place? [...] > If a package's functionality has issues, shouldn't you bring

Re: How do you deploy a new system ?

2004-02-23 Thread Sarwat H
I just wanted to thank everyone for the suggestions and replies. I will definitely check out some of the options you presented. Thx again. __ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at htt

Re: Starting isp and going to use Debian

2004-02-23 Thread Micah Anderson
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