On Wednesday 24 January 2007 11:06, Michael Welle wrote:
no, there is no easy way but why do you want to reboot? What exactly do you want to achieve?
in our management tool one can assign different tasks (such as partitioning, installing, etc) to a client. To perform a full installation one selects all predefined tasks. That's the way we install SuSE Linux now. But the GUI lets you select only one task, e.g. formating. Our users expected now that formating is the only action performed on the client.
ah. Interesting :) jepp ;). You can select a setup (e.g. SuSE Linux, some system from Redmond, or maybe Solaris if I find some time), select properties like IP stuff, partitioning, basic software scheme, display etc and assign
Hi, Uwe Gansert <ug@suse.de> writes: the setup to a group of clients. After that select the desired tasks (e.g. full install), press the start button and go for a coffee. After a while 10k machines are deployed with the system. You have only one tool to learn to deploy all this different platforms. Disadvantage: it is not an open source tool.
You can always do partitioning in a pre-script with fdisk if that is an option for you. After that, you can reboot if you want. Good hint, thanks. I have to think a little bit about it. But that may be the way to go.
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