Re: [SAGE] Looking for call management/helpdesk software

[Robert Au <rau@lsil.com>]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 04:21:50PM -0800, Josh Smith wrote:
> JXH> Debian does a good job of dealing with this live-ugprade stuff, and
> JXH> doesn't assume you are sitting at the machine. I am becoming a big
> JXH> fan of Debian.
> 
> Does Debian have anything like Kickstart (or Jumpstart)? That's long been
> the killer app for my choice of OS. Upgrading without downtime is good,
> but automated rebuilding is more critical (especially in academia, where
> downtime isn't nearly as expensive).

Here's a few (rough) notes I had for automatic Linux installation.
System Installation Suite, unlike most of the others, is image-based, not
package-based.

FAI (Debian, Solaris)
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
 
Kickstart (RedHat)
 
alice (SuSE)
 
System Installation Suite (successor to IBM's LUI; works with
  most Linux distributions)
http://sisuite.org/
 
NAIS (Debian, SuSE, maybe others)
http://nais.sourceforge.net/

How to Install Red Hat Linux via PXE and Kickstart
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~alfw/PXE-Kickstart/

OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resources)
http://oscar.sourceforge.net/

Cluster Command and Control
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/torc/C3/

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Robert Au                     rau@lsil.com