[TriLUG] Suggested Router OS? may be OT.

[Reginald Reed]

Sorry to reply to my own reply :(  I meant to say you DON'T need a PXE
server to do a network install.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Reginald Reed <reginald.reed at gmail.com> wrote:
> You need a PXE server to do a network install.  Create a really small
> boot CD and slam all the CD's into a directory on a box running an
> http server.  You can even customize the boot CD to do an auto-install
> with kickstart if you are so inclined.
>
> --Reggie
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  All good points. Just getting tired of the 6 CD (no DVD drives)
>> install. With no PXE server in place
>> right now, we are doing the CD-Shuffle. And since the network here is
>> internal, we only need a basic
>> set of tools to direct traffic through our test beds.
>>
>>  Thanks for the Revisor info, I'll take a look at that too. If I had a
>> choice, I'd make a simple Ubuntu
>> disc and get it over with.
>>
>> Greg: "the standard suite" is it.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Michael Peters <mpeters at plusthree.com> wrote:
>>> Alan Porter wrote:
>>>>> We've been using CENTOS in our lab environment to set up "pizza box"
>>>>> routers. My feeling is that this install is too heavy...
>>>
>>> Before making a big change like switching OS you should probably have more than a feeling. Why is it
>>> too heavy?
>>>
>>>> If CentOS works for your routers, then that sounds like a fine
>>>> solution to me.
>>>
>>> Me too.
>>>
>>>>  If there is a reason to shrink (small disk space,
>>>> running from flash, constrained memory, too many services running,
>>>> load is high), then shrink or find another distro.
>>>
>>> If disk space is your reason, you can create a custom version of an RH based distro using something
>>> like Revisor: http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/
>>>
>>> But if it's memor or the # of services running, then simply shut down what you don't need. The nice
>>> thing about having a full feature distro like CentOS is that you can shut off (and remove) what you
>>> don't want. But if you ever need it again, it's just few keyboard clicks away.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michael Peters
>>> Plus Three, LP
>>>
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