Blake Barnett said: > Do you know of any successful implementations? (say.. 15-50 > servers..) Anyone I could use as a reference? I don't want to
Yes. Ours. ;-) I'm working for the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota. I've used our woody-based FAI to install a number of minimalistic servers as well as full-blown workstations. There are lots of network topology, NFS, NIS and software cleanup to do, so documentation and publication of our setup hasn't really been at the forefront of my TODO list. The good news is that I've got most of the desired packages to install cleanly, and the third-party software packages -- mathmatica, matlab, maple, etc. -- are successfully being run via NFS automounts. I am attempting to write up texinfo documentation (I need to learn emacs again to take advantage of the texinfo mode) for our sysadmins on "how I did it" and users for "what does it mean to me", so the website articles won't be far behind (texi2html and into2www are great). I am CVS controlling our templates, and using a wonderful little Perl tool called cvs2cl to keep track of the ChangeLog's. One thing I want to do is tie in an auto-update of the CVS working directory checked out on our FAI server. That way, whenever I tag a file as CURRENT_RUNTIME, it'll launch the 'cvs update' on the FAI server. ;-) I'd also love to take advantage of the use of cfengine on each machine. I've come to really appreciate the tool in the configuration of the boxes during installation, and I can only see my systems management becoming easier with its use site-wide. I haven't been able to convince my boss to run everything under Debian, but he's got some good points for running the "other" Linux distro. I do amuse him with my evalgelism, though. ;-) I may convince the Math department into using a similar setup. Thomas Lange said: > I'm always looking for references, but no one makes a little web page > or write a short "how I did it". I would like to collect links to > installations using FAI, but there are few people giving me a link. > Some other installations (but too few): > http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/other.html > > Look also at: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/search4inst.html I'll look into putting up a cursory website, soon. -- Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
