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RE: OT: mass installs

To: <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: OT: mass installs
From: "Serge Sozonoff" <serge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 08:54:48 -0000
Hi,

This is  completely off topic here, but anyway, have a look at Rembo.

Serge 


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> 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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