One-time net-install

[Carsten Aulbert]

Hi

Nikola Knežević wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> does anyone has a tip/trick how to do one-time net-install. I'm
> currently using fai-chboot to enable netinstall on a machine, and reboot
> it. Then I wait until I see in faimond that the machine started
> installation, so I again fire up fai-chboot to disable netinstall on
> that machine (ie. next time machine boots, it will do localboot). Is
> there a way to simplify this? I would like to use fai-chboot once...
>

We simply let the node rsh/ssh into the FAI server and call fai-chboot
on themselves, work pretty good unless you forget to update .rhosts or
hosts.allow for a new group of hosts ;)

HTH

CArsten