Re: jumpstart & NIS+ (SUMMARY)

From: Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII (brossard@siisun.epfl.ch)
Date: Fri Apr 29 1994 - 07:52:16 CDT


In article <2pnrsf$8er@mail.fwi.uva.nl>, casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
|> roy@issy.cnet.fr (Jean-Michel ROY) writes:
|>
|> >I am specifically interested by experience of people using the network
|> >in all three phases. (There is the additional question of whether the
|> >server on the network uses a CDROM itself, or a copy on disk of the
|> >CDROM,. I think that this is an unimportant issue!)

    Actually, I disagree, if you do a lots of installations having a copy
of the CDROM on disk is important for two reasons:

        1- the installation will be significantly faster
        2- The installation can be customized. Eg:
           tired of telling the system everytime that your timezone is XXX
           just modify the script and hardcode it in! (Of course if you
           are using NIS+ on the server, you won't be asked the question
           in the first place, just an example.)

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Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, SIC/SII, MA-Ecublens, C.P. 121, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse, +41 21 693-2241 brossard@sic.epfl.ch



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