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Network install question.
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| Hi All.
I want to roll out a few test boxes of FC3 for a client who is currently
running windows machines, is sceptical that Linux can be as productive as
windows, but is willing to test a few installs to prove me wrong ;)
Help me show him how good Linux is! :D
My situation...
The Office is an eclectic array of old and new machines of various types.
Some with DVD drives, some without.
Can I do a network install by just mounting the DVD of Fedora on the fast
machine?
1) Edit /etc/exports and add /mnt/cdrom *(ro,sync)
2) exportfs -a
3) restart/start nfs with service nfs restart
4) Make a Fedora boot floppy to start the network installs.
Would it work from the DVD or should I copy it to the hard-disk? (I could
do more than one install at once that way?)
How do I make a boot floppy or even boot CD? Is there a good guide out
there? (Maybe Dr Google can help me there ;) )
Many thanks for your help.
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Jafar Calley
Livewire. The World's biggest VA.
http://www.flightbase2000.com
See Mars and Saturn in colour at
http://fatcat.homelinux.org
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| On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:23:54 +0100, Jafar wrote:
> How do I make a boot floppy or even boot CD?
Scratch that. I think all I have to do is burn boot.iso for a cd or use dd
to make boot floppies from the various images available on the DVD.
Cheers! 
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Jafar Calley
Livewire. The World's biggest VA.
http://www.flightbase2000.com
See Mars and Saturn in colour at
http://fatcat.homelinux.org
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| AnonymousFC3 2005-02-15, 5:58 pm |
| Jafar:
Fedora Core 3, is quite good, but needs a lot of work to stay on top...
It seems that you are unfamilar with it, at this point, but if you are
already familar with Linux it would not be that bad.
Although it probably be better if you learned it "at home".
For the install, the install from bootable is not bad, even if you want dual
boot... but for dual boot, you better know the stuff: Fedora is not always
(in my view) documented as it should.
But FC3 being for geeks, have you considered a more "civilised" version of
Linux, including one of the RedHat Suse or possibly Mandrake distros.
SUSE and MANDRAKE are a lot more like windows, and my experience with Suse
9.2 has been good. I have not used Mandrake for over a year, but it was
good too,
Also the choice of the distro has a lot to do wuth what you plan to do with
it.
FC3, SUSE 9.2 are both very stable, both need network update after install.
Good luck
- AFC3 -
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Jafar wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:23:54 +0100, Jafar wrote:
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> Scratch that. I think all I have to do is burn boot.iso for a cd or use dd
> to make boot floppies from the various images available on the DVD.
> Cheers!
>
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| On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:58:20 -0800, AnonymousFC3 wrote:
> Jafar:
> Fedora Core 3, is quite good, but needs a lot of work to stay on top...
> It seems that you are unfamilar with it, at this point, but if you are
> already familar with Linux it would not be that bad.
> Although it probably be better if you learned it "at home".
I use Gentoo at home which because of the high maintenance and the fact
that it compiles everything from sourcecode makes it impractical for roll
out on an office network that contains machines that are all different.
FC3 detects all the hardware and network settings easily and the users who
I have converted are all being happily productive with it. If I had the
choice, it would be Redhat Enterprise Linux, but most of the places I
install Linux are interested in escaping high costs and virus/malware
problems of Windows. FC3 fits the bill well and allows me to use my RHCE
skills without having to convert to the slightly different architectures
of Debian or Suse.
> For the install, the install from bootable is not bad, even if you want dual
> boot... but for dual boot, you better know the stuff: Fedora is not always
> (in my view) documented as it should.
None of the machines I convert to Linux dual boot. I replace windows
completely!
> Also the choice of the distro has a lot to do wuth what you plan to do with
> it.
> FC3, SUSE 9.2 are both very stable, both need network update after install.
I usually convert machines during downtime or when the user has a day off
so doing updates isn't so much of a problem. Yes FC3 is very stable and
much improved from FC2 which IMHO was a bit broken.
All the users need is a productive desktop which FC3 delivers. Maintenance
is my problem which thankfully, is less than the effort required to keep a
windows machine running at optimal efficiency. ;)
--
Jafar Calley
Livewire. The World's biggest VA.
http://www.flightbase2000.com
See Mars and Saturn in colour at
http://fatcat.homelinux.org
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