Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-16 Thread Andre Berger
Richard Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A (hopefully) related question...What I want to do is replace my current hard > drive with a larger hard drive and copy my current set up to the new drive. > My > basic plan of attack is to backup my current hard drive then use GNU parted to > create a

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-16 Thread Andre Berger
Richard Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A (hopefully) related question...What I want to do is replace my current hard > drive with a larger hard drive and copy my current set up to the new drive. My > basic plan of attack is to backup my current hard drive then use GNU parted to > create a (

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-16 Thread Richard Black
Heather wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:32:57AM +0100, Christian Rehn wrote: > > > > > > I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network > > > automatically. As all laptops have the same hardware I'd like to > > > install one manually, generate a file that describes the c

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-16 Thread Richard Black
Heather wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:32:57AM +0100, Christian Rehn wrote: > > > > > > I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network > > > automatically. As all laptops have the same hardware I'd like to > > > install one manually, generate a file that describe

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Heather
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:32:57AM +0100, Christian Rehn wrote: > > > > I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network > > automatically. As all laptops have the same hardware I'd like to > > install one manually, generate a file that describes the configuration > > and inst

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Heather
> I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network > automatically. As all laptops have the same hardware I'd like to > install one manually, generate a file that describes the configuration > and install Debian with the identical configuration on the other > laptops without foll

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Robert Guthrie wrote: > Do you know how to create a meta-package like task-gnome-desktop? It's just > a package has only one purpose; to depend on a lot of other packages so that > those packages get installed when you apt-get mypersonal-meta-package. Looks like a task package consists of not m

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Guthrie
Do you know how to create a meta-package like task-gnome-desktop? It's just a package has only one purpose; to depend on a lot of other packages so that those packages get installed when you apt-get mypersonal-meta-package. I don't know how to do this myself, but it seems you could merge a sing

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Heather
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:32:57AM +0100, Christian Rehn wrote: > > > > I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network > > automatically. As all laptops have the same hardware I'd like to > > install one manually, generate a file that describes the configuration > > and ins

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Heather
> I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network > automatically. As all laptops have the same hardware I'd like to > install one manually, generate a file that describes the configuration > and install Debian with the identical configuration on the other > laptops without fol

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Robert Guthrie wrote: > Do you know how to create a meta-package like task-gnome-desktop? It's just > a package has only one purpose; to depend on a lot of other packages so that > those packages get installed when you apt-get mypersonal-meta-package. Looks like a task package consists of not

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Robert Guthrie
Do you know how to create a meta-package like task-gnome-desktop? It's just a package has only one purpose; to depend on a lot of other packages so that those packages get installed when you apt-get mypersonal-meta-package. I don't know how to do this myself, but it seems you could merge a sin

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread John Ferlito
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:32:57AM +0100, Christian Rehn wrote: > > I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network > automatically. As all laptops have the same hardware I'd like to > install one manually, generate a file that describes the configuration > and install Debian w

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:32:57 +0100, Christian Rehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network > automatically. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ -- Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr | ignorami: n: The BOFH art of folding problem <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Rehn wrote: > > I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network > automatically. As all laptops have the same hardware I'd like to > install one manually, generate a file that describes the configuration > and install Debian with the identical configuration on the oth

Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Christian Rehn
I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network automatically. As all laptops have the same hardware I'd like to install one manually, generate a file that describes the configuration and install Debian with the identical configuration on the other laptops without following the

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread John Ferlito
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:32:57AM +0100, Christian Rehn wrote: > > I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network > automatically. As all laptops have the same hardware I'd like to > install one manually, generate a file that describes the configuration > and install Debian

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:32:57 +0100, Christian Rehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network > automatically. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ -- Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr | ignorami: n: The BOFH art of folding problem <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Rehn wrote: > > I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network > automatically. As all laptops have the same hardware I'd like to > install one manually, generate a file that describes the configuration > and install Debian with the identical configuration on the ot

Debian mass installation

2000-11-15 Thread Christian Rehn
I'd like to install Debian on a number of laptops over the network automatically. As all laptops have the same hardware I'd like to install one manually, generate a file that describes the configuration and install Debian with the identical configuration on the other laptops without following th