How to Install Fedora on 150+ machines

witt0191 witt0191 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 6 16:46:02 UTC 2005


Hi there

Imaging would work on similar specification machines but the kickstart 
option is much more flexible and is much easier to manage long term 
than having to build multiple complete images as the set up does not 
need identical machines: having said that we just use thin clients off 
a server even faster, as an aside carbon copy cloner will image mac OSx 
to create disk images to boot from

scott


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Hello!

I might not be too much help, but at least I might be able to point you 
in the right direction.  My best recommendation would be to use 
imaging.  I work for a university and that's how we get the OS on 
several hundred machines.  However, we us MS Win machines, but the 
concepts should be the same.  I know this can be done in OS X as well, 
so Linux, or Fedora Core in this case, should be able to do the same.  
The only trick is that you will have to make an image for EACH hardware 
configuration.  If you have a good mix of machines, this could be real 
annoying.  All you would have to do is create an *.iso image of the 
entire hard drive for a target machine (one which you wish to 
duplicate, or image) and remotely install the image to a client with 
the same hardware configuration as the image created.  The image would 
serve as an installation disc and make an exact replica of the target 
machine.  Like I said, this probably won't be too much help for you, 
since I really don't know too much about imaging in Linux.  I have been 
researching it in OS X, so when I figure it out, it should be a similar 
process.  I hope I have at least given you a start in the right 
direction.

> From: kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: How to Install Fedora on 150+ machines
> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 17:43:09 -0600
>
> Hi List;
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how I could automate the install of Fedora on 
> 150+
> computers with various specs (i.e. a variety of models, sound cards, 
> video
> cards, hard drive sizes, etc)
>
> ???
>
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