Automated installs (very long)
Louis Mandelstam
lma at sacc.org.za
Tue Oct 7 15:49:05 GMT 1997
On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Louis Mandelstam wrote:
> 3. Linux boots, gets IP settings using bootp, mounts a shared directory
> from the server via NFS, jumps to a script on the share, with all the
> necessary binaries on the server as well. Only things such as bootpc
> and ifconfig are on the inird on the Linux boot disk.
I'd like to add that I would recommend you use Samba/smbfs to mount the
share on the server from the install routine, rather than using NFS as I
have. Reason I'm using NFS was due to earlier experiments which used NFS,
and I certainly intend switching to SMB when I have some spare time.
Regards
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