Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

On Friday 17 Apr 2009, Ramkumar wrote: > HI Friends, >Give ideas and steps to implement Kickstart in LAN > using UBUNTU or SUSE 1. Read up on the suggested solutions and pick one for your implementation, and seek help for _specific_ problem you are facing _or_ 2. Seek professi

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Ramkumar wrote: >               Give ideas and steps to implement Kickstart in LAN using > UBUNTU or SUSE Here are the steps: 1. use google -- "linux kickstart howto", "linux kickstart tutorial", are good search terms 2. read online documentation 3. try your

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

HI Friends, Give ideas and steps to implement Kickstart in LAN using UBUNTU or SUSE On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Ramkumar wrote: > >> Hi Friends, >> For these kind of installation, can we try to use kickstart? >> > > Yes, absolutely. Its on

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

Ramkumar wrote: Hi Friends, For these kind of installation, can we try to use kickstart? Yes, absolutely. Its one of the main reasons why kickstart exists in the first place. Ideally you would run cobbler to manage the PXE server side of things - and it works well to manage p

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

Hi Friends, For these kind of installation, can we try to use kickstart? On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:18 AM, LinuXpert Academy < supp...@linuxpertacademy.com> wrote: > >The ideal way is to pxe boot and do a automated installation > >over the network. A web search for "ubuntu automat

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

>The ideal way is to pxe boot and do a automated installation >over the network. A web search for "ubuntu automated install" >or "unbuntu unattended install" will lead you to: > >http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-unattended-ubuntu-network-install > >This takes some setup to get it right and you'll nee

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

2009/4/17 Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] : > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Thanigairajan murugan > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In our office we bought new HP machines without DVD Drive with same >> configurations. >> we planned to install Ubuntu 8.04 . with all of our needs, and we can take >> image of

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Thanigairajan murugan wrote: > Hi, > > In our office we bought new HP machines without DVD Drive with same > configurations. > we planned to install Ubuntu 8.04 . with all of our needs, and we can take > image of that and Finally we can install remaining PCs by

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

Hi, On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Thanigairajan murugan wrote: > In our office we bought new HP machines without DVD Drive with same > configurations. > we planned to install Ubuntu 8.04 . with all of our needs, and we can take > image of that and >Finally we can install remaining PCs by u

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

On Friday 17 Apr 2009, Arun Khan wrote: > > Could you suggest me an OpenSource software for doing this. > > dd if=imagefile of=/dev/sd[ ...] tar/cpio, Clonezilla. > I got Ghost4Linux from a Google search link. -- Arun

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

On Thursday 16 Apr 2009, Thanigairajan murugan wrote: > In our office we bought new HP machines without DVD Drive with same > configurations. we planned to install Ubuntu 8.04 . with all of our > needs, and we can take image of that and Finally we can install > remaining PCs by using that image. I

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

On 16/04/2009, Thanigairajan murugan wrote: > In our office we bought new HP machines without DVD Drive with same > configurations. > we planned to install Ubuntu 8.04 . Use clonezilla as an alternate to norton ghost. Disk cloning is not perfect -- it installs the same hostname, IP address, ssh

Re: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

choosing the previouly stored NFS image as source. bye Raja_C From: Thanigairajan murugan To: chennailug Sent: Thursday, 16 April, 2009 10:30:33 PM Subject: [Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day Hi, In our office we bought new HP machines without

[Ilugc] How to install Linux for 50 PCs in a day

Hi, In our office we bought new HP machines without DVD Drive with same configurations. we planned to install Ubuntu 8.04 . with all of our needs, and we can take image of that and Finally we can install remaining PCs by using that image. I heard that NortonGhost has done sucessfully. Could you