December 2003
Intermediate to advanced
458 pages
9h 3m
English
book
Deploying Linux on IBM eServer pSeries Clusters
by Dino Quintero, Prabhakar Attaluri, Tomas Baublys, Xinghong He, Chin Yau Lee, Francois Thomas
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2.3. From network to fully unattended installation
Installing more than a few nodes from CD-ROM is not practical. The process of deploying SLES 8 or RHAS 3 on a large number of cluster nodes needs to be made faster and simpler, and you can accomplish this through network installation. There are many advantages to network installation:
Speed
With the advent of fast Ethernet networks (100Mbit/s, 1000Mbit/s), network installation can be much faster than CD or DVD installations.
Efficiency
With network installation, you can drive everything from the comfort of your office.
Saving CDs
There is no need to burn huge numbers of CDs (which are easily damaged).
Troubleshooting
It is useful to keep a few different kernels on an installation server, which can ...