On Mon, Sep 29, 1997 at 04:14:10PM -0500,
Nick Gilliam d-3712 7-5554 ng96753 gillidn wrote:
: I am looking for methods to efficiently load many (up to
: 200) Debian GNU/Linux machines. The machines are to
: be configured identically. TCP/IP connectivity is available.
Are the machines bootable from CD-ROM?
If so, make some CD-R's of a "master" system that boots a custom kernel
to support your hardware (use make-kpkg). Set that system up to use DHCP
to find an IP address for use during setup. However, once it's running,
make the first thing the user sees to be a shell script that prompts them for
their IP address, sets up /etc/init.d/network appropriately, uninstalls
the dhcp packages, sets the hostname and comes up normally.
OR, you could, assuming these are SCSI machines, using identical drives,
you might be able to make some external enclosures with those drives
containing a "master" image, and use dd to transfer to the internal drive.
The second case is FAR less likely to happen, however.
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