Remote Installation Services (RIS)

[Uraken]

Thanks john i had dhcp server installed but non-fuctional pxe and ris automatically search for local dhcp if it finds one it looks no further but my dhcp server was on another server so i removed the non-operational one and bingo.

[SOSAGES]

i used RIS a few years ago its very nice.

I assume most people use it every term to format / reinstall at the start of the summer hols ready for the next bunch of students to try and break the machines

[Enzomatrx]

Quick question:

Can RIS images be stored and deployed from an external USB hard drive?
Would it be as simple as mounting the \REMINST share on the server to the external drive?

We're out of room on our partition for images and we're thinking just throwing in some external 300GB drives will be easier than anything.

Thanks for any help.

[eean]

Don't see why not. USB hard drives are seen by windows as the same as normal hard drives.

[mac_shinobi]

Might be a little bit slower as the USB 2 hard drives have the USB 2 bottle neck compared to how fast the SCSI hard drives are on the server.

Might be better off getting a nas with a few hundred gigs on it ie a 500gb lacie NAS or something like that and shoving that on a gigabit port and doing it that way ?