[Gllug] Fedora - Large installation Help

[Jack Richards]

Having done this with our own PXE based replication system, you can do about 
700 POS devices ( basically small PC systems ) in tandem. 
 
BUT IT DOES TAKE ITS TIME ! 
 
The limitation is the number of DHCP ranges you have and the amount of 
patience you are will to expend. 
 
Our Installer now uses multicast and parity files and can install 10 machines 
in the same amount of time it takes to install 1.  Scales well too. 
 
The biggest problems is that network traffic will really start to bottle neck 
after about 15 or so concurrent installs.  
 
Quoting wendy carr <wendy_carr2003 at yahoo.co.uk>: 
 
> 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 ? 
>  
> Also any idea how many instalaations i can run in 
> parallel ? The server is dual amd with 1G memory. 
>  
> cheers 
 
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