From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 20 3:56: 7 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 03:56:04 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647EC37B6A4; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:56:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eBKBu3Z17696; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:56:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:56:03 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Nik Clayton Cc: Mike Nowlin , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping lots of systems all the same... Message-ID: <20001220035603.P19572@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001220104157.A48462@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001220104157.A48462@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:41:57AM +0000 Sender: bright@fw.wintelcom.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Nik Clayton [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. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message