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Create a nfsroot
boot over nfs the machine to install...
prepare your disks and so on...
on the "image server".. do a find .. | cpio | nc ...
on the other side... do a nc | cpio ...
done :)
regards
H..
On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 17:24, Zachariah Mully wrote:
> Hello all-
> I am looking for some advice from all the linux veterans out there.
> Over the next 1-2 months I have to put about 25 new linux servers out
> into production and I am a little worried about the time that it is
> going to take me. In the past I have done every install by hand, but
> going through the damn install process to pick the packages takes as
> long as it does to actually install the software. I have looked at
> RedHat's Kickstart, but a fair number of the servers are DAC960 SCSI
> RAID based, and if I understand the KS documentation correctly, it won't
> work in these cases.
> So whats the secret to mass installs? I am standardizing on RH7.1 with
> kernel 2.4.13, so I need to build an image with the new kernel and I
> would like to keep the image to the lowest common denomenator. I have no
> problem going through each box before deployment to make sure that any
> box specific software/configurations are installed, so the less specific
> the image the better I feel.
> I was thinking of doing a Norton Ghost setup, but the cash for the
> Corporate version isn't exactly at hand right now, so I would like to
> look at other (cheaper/free) alternatives.
>
> Thanks for the advice!
>
> Zack
>
>
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