Assuming that the machines are basically the same -- I have used Norton Ghost 2002.
I loaded up Debian from CD, updated from the ftp site, installed and configured my base packages. Then created a ghost image (1. ghost works with lilo but not with grub 2. I've left out a number of steps - I have several spare hard drives and computers to work with) and burned it to a CD. As a test, I installed the ghost image on a couple of different machines. It takes less than 10 minutes to restore the ghost image. Next change the IP and host names and I was done. Using a MSDOS diskette with Ghost, a ghost image, and a couple of ethernet cards, you can load over a network. My setup works better with CDs. Let me know if I can help. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 12/27/2001 at 12:51 PM Marcel Hicking wrote: Hi folks I finally managed to convince our server guys to go for Debian - instead of Redhat, which caused lots of problems lately :-( We are talking ~100 (maybe more) servers here. Could anyone hint me to a decent way of handling the setup and later updates? Can I have a bootable CD and have predefined packages installed automatically? What do you do to keep systems up to date? TIA, Marcel -- __ .´ `. : :' ! Enjoy `. `´ Debian/GNU Linux `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gregory Wood 1219 West University Blvd. Odessa TX 79764-7119 915-335-0879
