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my personal advise; over almost a decade: install ONE, ghost the others !
ghost is software imaging disks ...
and works on any FS OS even disks with different sizes ...
grutz
On 31 Oct 2001 17:39:27 +0100
Hervé Guehl <guehlh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:)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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