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Why we do installs this way
Cluster: requirements for the installation procedure
The installation procedure must require little typing.
The installation media must pop out in reasonable time.
The installation must finish in reasonable time.
A failed installation must be logged or recover gracefully.
Operations: requirements for the install server
Few install servers must be required.
The installation procedure must work across subnets.
Installing a new install server must be quick.
Maintaining install servers must take little time.
An install server must not require a list of clients.
An install server should ignore non-Athena clients.
The installation procedure must allow flexibile disk partitioning.
Development: requirements for install media preparation
Any standalone boot media required must be easy to write.
There must be a repeatable way to derive an image from vendor media.
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