yba@sabre.bellcore.com (Mark Levine) (11/08/88)
Reply-to: yba@sabre.bellcore.com (Mark Levine)
We have Ultrix 2.3 and use the Remote Installation Service
to implement a network kit on an 8650 so we can update our
microvaxes. DEC seems to supply supported and unsupported
software, but no instructions for "roll your own". Does
anyone use RIS to distribute your own local updates?
If so, what do you use to generate the control files for
your images (~ris/instctrl/*.{inv,scp,ctrl})? Not sure
what setld means by a "configuration message" to be sent
to a subset, nor whether there is any way to automagically
generate the directions in a .inv after listing the files.
I suppose it can be reverse engineered, but am looking for
experience out there.
Is supplying this format to other DEC users (layered,
home-grown, unsupported product) in violation of anything?
I know about rdist, rcp, etc., just looking for a method here
for the sake of uniformity when setting up a workstation
over the network.
Alternatively, would you be interested in seeing this for
your own use in future Ultrix?
Eleazor bar Shimon, once and future Carolingian
yba@sabre.bellcore.com