Hello all! If this is stupid, please forgive my ignorance. I have been using SuSE since 6.3 and *love* it! It has been noted that Yast will not be in this release, but Yast2 is taking its place entirely. My only concern is to the ability to use the ftp site as a valid update/installation source. Yast did this exceptionally well, however I have not yet figured out: 1.) If Yast2 can do it!? 2.) If #1 == TRUE then HOW??!! :) This is pretty much my only concern for 8.0! (not that it would stop me from getting it... ;) ~T. I'm out of my mind right now, but please feel free to leave a message.
On Sunday 24 March 2002 10:27 pm, you wrote:
My only concern is to the ability to use the ftp site as a valid update/installation source. Yast did this exceptionally well, however I have not yet figured out: 1.) If Yast2 can do it!? 2.) If #1 == TRUE then HOW??!! :)
This is pretty much my only concern for 8.0! (not that it would stop me from getting it... ;)
Same here. On servers 100 miles away it's not very practical to use the installation CDs!
Along the same lines, I attended a meeting where the presentor was talking about Red Hat's kickstart. Essentially, you make a kickstart diskette (or CD for that matter) with configuration information. (I'm simplifying a bit) If the remote system boots the diskette, it would initiate a network install. The bottom line is to have a way that you can remotely initiate an install/upgrade procedure non-interactively. If you are talking about a few servers, there is no real issue, but in a business where you might have hundreds of desktop machines. On 25 Mar 2002 at 1:59, JW wrote:
On Sunday 24 March 2002 10:27 pm, you wrote:
My only concern is to the ability to use the ftp site as a valid update/installation source. Yast did this exceptionally well, however I have not yet figured out: 1.) If Yast2 can do it!? 2.) If #1 == TRUE then HOW??!! :)
This is pretty much my only concern for 8.0! (not that it would stop me from getting it... ;)
Same here. On servers 100 miles away it's not very practical to use the installation CDs!
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:20:01 -0500, you wrote:
The bottom line is to have a way that you can remotely initiate an install/upgrade procedure non-interactively. If you are talking about a few servers, there is no real issue, but in a business where you might have hundreds of desktop machines.
That's what we have ALICE and in the future autoyast for ;-) Philipp
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