why not OS X?

[Shawn Dunn]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 02:49:21 -0400
Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com> wrote:

> On Tue Jun 4 2002, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:
> 
> > Consider my problem:=20
> > We have about 6 different types of installations. On Red Hat it works
> > like so:
> > 
> > 1. We have a central repository of RPM packages, updated with the latest
> > fixes from Red Hat (yup tree).
> > 2. We have 6 kickstart ks.conf files.
> > 3. When I need to install, I turn on the machine and select "Linux
> > Install" from the PXE menu. That's the last thing I do -- I then walk
> > away and go do other things.
> > 4. Machine downloads the correct kickstart config file (specified via
> > DHCP) and installs all necessary packages.=20
> > 5. After the installation is complete, it copies over the backed up
> > configuration files and reboots.
> > 6. Done -- machine is installed and fully patched.
> 
> This sounded really cool and useful until I checked and discovered that
> it apparently only supports x86 systems.  I do a crude facsimile by having
> a master machine that I keep updated via yup and other means, and then use
> rsync together with an exclude list of personality/run-time-generated files
> to update all the other systems.
> 
> Interestingly, I noticed that YDL 2.1 includes the mkkickstart-2.3-1.noarch.rpm
> whose summary is "Writes a kickstart description of the current machine".
> However, YDL 2.2 no longer includes this RPM.  I wonder what would be
> required to enable kickstart to work on PPC and specifically YDL (obviously
> use of lilo would have to be changed to yaboot).
> 
you know, after switching recently from YDL to Debian/Woody, I think you're all forgetting possibly the easiest way in the world to maintain systems, apt-get   all you need a master repository, and a shell script running apt-get upgrade on occaision...............

					--Shawn