Hello everybody, I want to install debian 2.2 in 40 intel machines and I have some questions. I am not new in Linux but I am in debian (I used redhat). Sorry for my english but is been a long time since i used them :)
The method I use goes like this: I have made the rescue and root disks with flavour=udma66. I start the pc's with them and I beggin the instalation. (In the future i will do that with bootpd). The base installation starts with nfs,and then I install the module for the ethernet card and setup the network (with dhcpd). Then restart and put root password and so on. Finaly I come to packages selections. Here are the problems. First of all, I want to make a local ftp server and I download this directorys non-US/potato/Contents-i386.gz non-US/potato/main/binary-all binary-i386 non-US/potato/non-free/binary-all binary-i386 non-US/potato/contrib/binary-all binary-i386 and potato/Contents-i386.gz potato/main/binary-all binary-i386 potato/non-free/binary-all binary-i386 potato/contrib/binary-all binary-i386 (the paths are the same as in the ftp server) Am I missing anything? Second: If I select the simple way to install packages I get only tasks and no profiles, how I can get the profile section? Last but not least: When I select advance, dselect appears. I then have to select packages which is very tricky and I can't manage to do it, but if I do so, I want then to make a file with my selections and use it to the others machines. Someone told me that I should do it with dpkg --get-selections > file on the machine where it's installed as it has to be, ftp it to other machine and run dpkg --set-selections < file, then apt-get update or somesuch. I need some more help about that or any new suggestions. Thanks for your time and sorry for the big mail. Sidirourgos Lefteris University of Crete - Greece
