On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 12:44, Robert wrote: > Lew Bloch wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 09:59:37 +0100 > >> From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> ... I was trying to clarify that for Lew. ... > > > > > > I've been rereading and thinking about the posts offered by Paul and > > Joe(theWordy) and others - just about every idea has been viable and > > their value has increased as I consider them. You've all been very > > helpful; thank you. > > > > I'm bound to try several different approaches. The "burn'em CD boot" > > approach is a goodn, or I could even mount a bootable Linux partition on > > the Windows machine. But time and energy are limited, and I get lazy, > > so experimentation might take a while. > > > > Of course, now everyone who reads the thread knows about Knoppix and > > like solutions, and can think about NFS and perhaps even Samba. I hope > > many have benefited. > > > > > > There's another trick I intend to try, next time I install a new version > on my other machine. We all know that you can control the installation > remotely by booting "linux vnc" and that you can export the iso file(s) > by booting linux "askmethod". I'm wondering if the two can be combined. > Along the same lines, there was another thread here just a few days ago > that found someone in the UK confronted with finding an idiot-proof > method for loading a system here in the US. I think that if I were in > that situation commercially (which a number of people here are) or quite > a bit younger (which damn near everyone on this list is :(), I would > look into a hardware solution built around a watchdog timer and > bootstrap in ROM on a PCI card. > > Regards > Ok yam which is a python script can set up a mirror of quite a few repos for Fedora Core 2 and supports remote installs with PXE enabled NIC. I use it to download updates once for two machines. You can check it out here: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/ You don't need the ISOs to mirror the repos. "Straight out of the box" it will grab FC2 core, updates and a few extra repos (Becareful dag has 1600 packages to download initally compared the core which is 1619 packages) also the i386 and x86_64 arch types.
