On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I want to install debian on different PC's using same selection > of packages for each PC. Is it possible if I have one PC fully > configured to take its list of installed packages and install > these on a second pc, whithout having to go through the whole > list with dselect again? I'm currently using the debian release > on the recent Infomagic CD-ROM set (the green one). > > We're doing kind of this thing over here, configuring about 50 PC's using RedHat (*sniff*):
Create ONE installation. Then create a HUGE tar file, with the complete installation on that computer. Then boot linux on the other PC's, using a simple boot floppy, and RAMDISK as root-filesystem. Open a socket on the server and on the client, and just untar the huge file using thiose sockets (so, the uncompressed files are going through the cables). Works perfectly, apart from adapting some files in /etc, about the hostname. bye // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://cam053212.student.utwente.nl // " Never make any mistaeks. "
