[Infrastructures] Jumpstart on AFS?

[Craig Cook]

There was some discussion back in March about AFS and radmind.  From what I can see you need an OS installed before you can use Radmind.

One suggestion was to run radmind off an afs share for increased availability.

Can this idea be stretched to include Solaris Jumpstart?  One limitation with jumpstart is you need a boot server on the same subnet as the box you are trying to build.  If jumpstart itself was put on an AFS share you could effectively have a jumpstart server on each subnet that you needed... (or is that a bad idea)

Has anyone done something like this? 

eg. Jumpstart new solaris box
Install radmind client
radmind then installs cfengine client/afs client/patches/whatever for you...

Craig Cook
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