<div>Cobbler does look nice. For a school lab I was looking at Clonezilla. You might also consider a wireless adapter for ad hoc networking in a pinch.</div><br clear="all">Gary Ritchie, Designer + Digital Artist<br>Pittsburgh, USA<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Martin James Gehrke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@teamgehrke.com">martin@teamgehrke.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Cobbler looks cool.<div><br></div><div>Sticking with the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) method. I think the easiest setup that would work regardless of location would be to have the PXE/Cobbler/whatever server as well as a dd-wrt flashed router.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You would be double NAT'ed to get to the internet, but you could minimize internet access by mirrorings repos as you mentioned.</div><div>Or do the install on your net and then plug into the public net to do a post-install update.</div>
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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Moshe Hyzon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mokatz@gmail.com" target="_blank">mokatz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Take a look at cobbler:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/" target="_blank">https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/</a><br>
<br>
Hosts Red Hat/Fedora and derivatives<br>
<br>
also Debian/Ubuntu and SUSE derivatives.<br>
<br>
It is SUUUUPER slick. Can also host stuff like memtest86+, DBAN, even<br>
*erp* windows if you are sneaky.<br>
<br>
I actually work with one of the main devs on the project.<br>
<br>
Moshe<br>
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On 06/16/2011 01:55 PM, Terence J. Golightly wrote:<br>
> Greetings List,<br>
><br>
> A project has been eating at me has come to partial fruition:<br>
><br>
> An InstallFest PXE server.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I now have a donor pc courtesy of Beth Lynn Eicher.<br>
><br>
> It is an AMD Athlon 32bit processor with a 500GB HD. It has a CD rom<br>
> drive. (Anybody like to donate a dvd/rw)? An extra hard would be nice<br>
> as well. The more disk space I can shove into this baby the better:D.<br>
><br>
> Now I have it partially setup:<br>
><br>
> / -- 20 GB<br>
> /home -- 10 GB<br>
> /media/shared 450+GB<br>
><br>
> Ubuntu 10.04 desktop installed<br>
><br>
>> <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PXEInstallMultiDistro" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PXEInstallMultiDistro</a><br>
><br>
> This will allow us to satisfy potential users as to our ability to get<br>
> an install on their computers<br>
><br>
> I have tftp and dhcp installed (not configured).<br>
><br>
> I would like this server be easy to use and configure. However, this<br>
> machine will be picked up and taken to a different site (wherever an<br>
> InstallFest may be). What might be a good way to set this for general<br>
> use at a site. I know that Brookline library has ethernet that we can<br>
> use with there own dhcp server. I don't recall Northland Library's<br>
> configuration (probably not too different).<br>
><br>
> What would be the best way to configure it? Run it as a standalone<br>
> setup using its own DHCP server, on a separate network?<br>
><br>
> Connect it into the local/house network. Use their PXE server? Doesn't<br>
> at first glance, depending on the config of the house's network appear<br>
> to be a good idea. However, for discussion's sake, what would be the<br>
> complexities involved there if any? Maybe multi-home it to isolate its<br>
> main business from the local network until time to update an install?<br>
> Complexity?<br>
><br>
> Or just install a complete repository to the harddisk and use that for<br>
> updates. Again degree of implementation complexity?<br>
><br>
><br>
> I like this idea of a menu driven multi-distro pxe server. In fact, I've<br>
> proposed and we're now married (it love at first click:)). However, I<br>
> could be convinced to file for a divorce, it could get messy though :D.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Lighttpd could be substituted for apache? Right? Is there an<br>
> alternative to bind that would have similar functionality w/o the large<br>
> foot print? Bind or a web server isn't really needed. I believe a text<br>
> based menu setup is certainly possible as well. Just want to follow the<br>
> k.i.s.s. principle for now and maybe later if time permit go for the<br>
> full monty.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Terry Golightly<br>
> Vice Chair Your Wplug<br>
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