Feature idea: network based livecd installer
Orion Poplawski
orion at cora.nwra.com
Fri Jun 1 18:14:43 UTC 2007
Inspired by Jeff's post -
I'm really impressed with the install speed of the LiveCD installer.
What I'd like to be able to do is to essentially do the same thing over
the network - pxeboot into an environment that can pull the LiveCD image
of the network and install onto the local harddrive. I really haven't
had a chance to look closely at what's involved though. Seem possible?
I'm really disappointed with the speed of installs lately and looking to
speed things up. We do a lot of identical installs here and it would be
nice to do the depsolving/filesystem creation on a fast server and then
just dump it onto the client.
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Orion Poplawski
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NWRA/CoRA Division FAX: 303-415-9702
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