winstall - Begin installation on a noderange and display in wcons
winstall [-o|--osver] [-p|--profile] [-a|--arch] [noderange]
winstall is a convience command that will change tables as requested for operating system version, profile, and architecture, call nodeset to modify the network boot configuration, and rpower to begin a boot cycle. It will then commence a wcons command to the noderange for monitoring.
Specifies which os version to install. If unspecified, the current table values are used.
Specifies what profile should be used of the operating system. If not specified the tables are used as is.
Specifies what architecture of the OS to install. Typically this is unneeded, but if provisioning betweer x86_64 and x86 frequently, this may be a useful flag.
winstall node1-node20
Install nodes 1 through 20, using configuration as is from tables.
winstall -o rhels5.1 -p compute node1-node20
Install nodes 1 through 20, forcing rhels5.1 and compute profile.
Jarrod B Johnson <jbjohnso@us.ibm.com>