[ANNOUNCE] DragonFly BSD Installer RC1

[Hiten Pandya]

Ivan Voras wrote:
Erik P. Skaalerud wrote:

small server (snmp?) that reports to broadcast queries? + client for 
querying


Or just a simple client/daemon suite that you can write yourself?
Client just broadcasts on its subnet that its ready to be installed to.
daemon snaps this up and tells the admin "The computer at IP 
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX says its ready to be installed to."

Can't be any more simple than that.

But of course, someone should think of security options aswell.
Also, a feature I'd like to see is somewhat like Norton Ghost. Let's 
say you have a installer server that all the clients connect to, 
recieve their config from, load it then start installing when the 
server says it's ok to go. The admin would see all the clients 
installing from his browser etc..

Anyone like this idea?


Me :) All of it :)
	Guys, look at rconfig(8), such functionality is already
	implemented in DragonFly and extending on it should not
	be more than a day's work.
		-Hiten
		hmp at xxxxxxxxxxxxx