[ale] Headless, Consoleless, DVDless, NetInstall? was: Fedora NetInstall via USB Drive

[Richard Bronosky]

Wow, great responses! I haven't finished reading them all yet, but I
want to get some additional info out there real quick. I WILL read
every comment and study every topic/command/link. You are all much
appreciated.

1. We have about 12 physical boxes out there.
2. We pay for RedHat support, have a bunch of licenses, and even
though I prefer apt... that's the way it is.
3. When I came into this new decision making role we had no
virtualization, no LVM. I chose [free] Xen because a) it _was_ the
RedHat way, b) I have expertise on my team.
4. We don't have X installed on any of our servers and I plan to keep
it that way.
5. The machines all have a public NIC that are firewalled to only be
accessable from my company's network (except the web servers with wide
open port 80/443)
6. The machines all have a private NIC that goes directly to a [rented
(argh!)] Gigabit switch, using the 10.10 network.
7. My goal is to virtualize the whole pool. We have done 3 so far. We
have got the process pretty slick, except for the part where we have
to ask Peer1 to do anything. At this point the only thing we ever ask
is "reinstall RHEL5 with LVM and volumes like..."

I hope that helps. Thanks again!

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