From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Weisselberg Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Implementation questions Message-Id: <20011219033014.A2938@tiger.bigcats.invalid> References: <25E4CA13D679FF48BC30769420220971467A2C@nd1-clusa.local.bunnings.com.au> <3C1F07D1.9020008@promofinarsa.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C1F07D1.9020008@promofinarsa.es>; from jesus_navarro@promofinarsa.es on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:09:37AM +0100 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue Dec 18 20:55:02 2001 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Hi, Jesus! Jesus Manuel NAVARRO LOPEZ (jesus_navarro@promofinarsa.es) wrote 73 lines: > Colin Coe wrote: > > As I have about 130 of these to do, I am toying with the idea of installing > > a cut-down Linux system with XFS, LAM, md and ramdisk support and making a > > bootable CD-ROM which I can then use to configure the system how I want it. > As you're talking about a farly respectable number of boxes, the > automated idea seems reasonable. I would have a look at the LUI project > from IBM and/or even a physical disk replicator: the first option will There is also the FAI project, which AFAIK has found it's way into Debian by now. You'll probably want network for it -- a networkcard with bootprom is a real boon there. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ -Wolfgang