Updates: how may we do it?

geraldomanaus · 02-03-2005, 07:36 AM

Hello friends,

Here at work, they are planning to install the GNU/Linux on ALL 110 workstations (Windows 2000 Professional, actually). So, one question came out: if we have to update the kernel, for example, how may we do it on all 110 computers? Or when we need to apply some security updates, how may we proceed?
The "Other OS" has one centralized system to update all the machines and we'll be in trouble if I not found a similar way in the GNU/Linux.
Thanks to all and I'm sorry for my bad english.

qwijibow · 02-03-2005, 07:56 AM

so you want to network boot...
no problem,

there are how-to's all over the gentoo.org forum, im trying to dig them up for you but there forum is very unresponcive today... try later the search function on the forum at gentoo.org.

ilikejam · 02-03-2005, 08:06 AM

Hi.

If it's a Fedora install, you could keep a central yum repository on your network, and have yum run every night (or at some other interval) to pick up any new packages (including the kernel) from your on-site repository.

I'm sure you could do the same with apt if it's a Debian based distro.

Dave