khan_don(a)emc.com schrieb:
Hello,
Is it possible to use cobbler to deploy filesystem/partition/disk
images, e.g. images made from g4l or clonezilla. I'd like to use the
cobbler as the single server for deploying images via pxe boot. With
images I'll also have to deal with drivers of different geometries but
clonezilla has code to do that. Is using such images faster than
deploying via kickstart for a large number of machines (hundreds).
For hundrets of machines, using kickstart (and maybe a load-balanced
farm of distribution-servers) will beat clonezilla hands down.
In fact, I'd say that cobbler was _designed_ for such massive rollouts.
I'd use machines with 8 or more GB RAM, so that the whole distribution
would fit into RAM after it has been served the first time.
I don't know about multicasting - has anybody done multicasting (the
"real" ghost can do that) on such a large scale? I imagine that you run
out of switch-backplane bandwidth at some point.
Rainer