[Gllug] Fedora - Large installation Help

[wendy carr]

Thanks for all sugesstions,
I think i should go for dhcp desktops, and there is no
need for static ip's anyway.
As you have advised will start with few desktops and
then increase.
If not i will install manually all 200 desktops :)
Not bad way to spend your time.

cheers



--- John Hearns <john.hearns at streamline-computing.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 10:22 +0100, wendy carr wrote:
> > Hi Thanks all,
> > 
> > I guess you guys are right, dhcp is the way to go.
> > I ve got few pxe bootable desktops but most are
> not.
> > Worse is they dont have floppy drives, what do you
> > reckon burning bootable image ad kickstart on to
> CD ?
> CD, or think of USB key, if they will boot from USB.
> I guess not if they don't do PXE.
> 
> > Also any idea how many instalaations i can run in
> > parallel ? The server is dual amd with 1G memory.
> Good question....
> 
> The limiting step will be the NFS server.
> Up your number of NFS daemons running.
> 
> For PXE booting, when you are just booting then
> letting the machine
> start up (ie. not doing a Kickstart) we have some
> big clusters
> out there. But we use sequenced PDUs so everything
> does not start with
> the sound of opening circuit breakers :-) And in the
> case of the big Sun
> installs I scripted a power on sequence with a 5
> second delay.
> 
> Sticks finger in the wind, ponders, and says try a
> dozen machines
> at a time. Watch 'top' on your server and see those
> NFS daemons waiting.
> 
> 
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