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Automated installation with the Cobbler provisioning tool
NEW SHOES
Author(s): DAVID NALLEY
Cobbler helps you install new systems in a hurry. We’ll show you how to use this nifty shoemaker to deploy Xen and VMware virtual machines.
If you try to install or upgrade several computers at once, you will soon discover that manual installation is a huge time sink. Even if you are working with a checklist, it is often difficult to get everything installed the same way every time. For this reason, most systems administrators understand the importance of an automated install system. It’s no surprise that virtually every operating system has the ability to automate installations. What is curious, given the necessity of such systems, is that configuring automated installation typically requires so much time and effort. In the past, automated installation required a fair amount of knowledge about networking, Pre-eXecutable Environment (PXE), and, of course, the operating system itself. Those prerequisites represented a significant barrier to entry.
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