On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 10:19:57 +0200 Nico Schottelius <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Dieter, > > Dieter Plaetinck [Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 09:43:31AM +0200]: > > On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 01:54:12 +0200 > > Nico Schottelius <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Simo Leone [Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 04:40:21PM -0700]: > > > > I added a few things to make serial console work over PXE/IPMI > > > > recently... > > > > so at least you can do manual installs that way. > > > > > > That's probably another good step into the right direction! > > > > > > What about logging to a remote tcp/udp port and/or syslog support? > > > > > > In the end, the killer for using an OS in a large infrastructure > > > is automated installations though, not only logging :-) > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Nico > > > > You should be able to do what you want with: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso_as_pxe_server > > and recent images from http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/ > > where you can pass a script argument to the kernel which will execute any > > script (like say.. an aif automatic installation) > > That's right, but it's pretty cumbersome to retrieve a whole iso image > to do that job. > > Besides that, in a large infrastructure dhcp/dns is usually already > existing and thus the script does way too much. > > Indeed, if you'd added the copy_files() part into the release process, > people who want to have the pxe installation method could just grep > the 4 needed files and would be happy. > > That's what other Unices do and in my opinion should be simple to > implement once at Archlinux and then have nobody care about it > again. well, I don't have a large infrastructure sitting at home, nor do I have the time to figure out and implement a feature I don't use; I already have a hard enough time doing all the other releng stuff. If you want to make things better, I welcome contributions and will gladly assist you where I can. But this kind of stuff needs to come from someone who actually uses it and can test it. Dieter
