On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 08:52 -0500, Hacksaw wrote: > >Both ways are possible: > >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-instal > l-guide/s1-steps-network-installs.html#S2-STEPS-NETWORK-INSTALL-ISO > > Huh! Okay. > > I was warming up to the idea until I got to the note that you could only have > one release (and one variant? what does that mean?) in the directory. I think "variants" means like the "WS" and "AS" versions of RHEL. There's nothing to stop you exporting a directory /software containing: /software/fc3 /software/fc2 /software/rhel4-ws /software/rhel4-as etc., each subdirectory containing the ISO images for that distribution (and only that distribution). > If you could have an iso directory, and had a general tool that could go and > give you a menu of OSes to install, that'd be kind of cool, speaking from the > Large Implementation Systems Administration point of view. You could create a bootable USB thumb drive with the kernels and initrds for all of these OS's installers available in a menu, enabling you to choose which OS to install from your NFS server. I've done this myself. > Oh well, I guess it saves having to teach people to mount iso's, but I think > that's a dubious trade off. Perhaps they are reaching for something with that > feature. It saves a step. And if you have a server with lots of ISOs like the one I described above, it saves you a loop device per ISO too, which could be important. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
