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deployment on multiple machines
- From: Phil Driscoll <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:04:39 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <01072410110903.11000@linux>
Progress on getting a good system running on the 32Mb machines we've been
given is going well. At some point over the summer holidays, we are going to
need to install a working system on 123 machines.
The machines all have 'blank' hard drives, a floppy drive and onboard realtek
ethernet NIC. I cannot guarantee that all the hard drives are identical,
although they are all about 3Gb.
The final setup on the machines will be basically Suse 7.2 with some tweaks -
I guess a lightweight kernel and, it currently looks like a hacked version of
icewm with all 'toys' removed.
All machines will be identical apart from IP address (fixed) and hostname.
It would be great to have a boot floppy which would bootstrap an installation
over the network. Does anyone have any experience in this area? Any advice on
suitable technologies gratefully received.
Cheers
--
Phil Driscoll
given is going well. At some point over the summer holidays, we are going to
need to install a working system on 123 machines.
The machines all have 'blank' hard drives, a floppy drive and onboard realtek
ethernet NIC. I cannot guarantee that all the hard drives are identical,
although they are all about 3Gb.
The final setup on the machines will be basically Suse 7.2 with some tweaks -
I guess a lightweight kernel and, it currently looks like a hacked version of
icewm with all 'toys' removed.
All machines will be identical apart from IP address (fixed) and hostname.
It would be great to have a boot floppy which would bootstrap an installation
over the network. Does anyone have any experience in this area? Any advice on
suitable technologies gratefully received.
Cheers
--
Phil Driscoll
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