[Beowulf] How to do a single network install

[Chris Samuel]

----- "Matt Lawrence" <matt at technoronin.com> wrote:

> I needed a quick way to signal back to the kickstart server that my 
> install was done and to boot from the hard drive next time.

Our "installnode" script on the management node just watches
the DHCP logs for the node requesting an address and sets it
back to localboot N seconds after it sees it.

If something goes wrong in the install we just rerun the
installnode script and reboot the node.

cheers,
Chris
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