Erik Winn wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I have just started working with a group here in Portland that is taking in > old machines and recycling them - putting linux on as the OS (of course ;}). > See http://www.freegeek.org for more. Its a non-profit all volunteer thing; > and actually one of the people has posted to one of these lists before ... > but, apparently things kinda (lamely, IMO) drifted toward a mandrake system > -- I think I can turn that around with a little help; I am putting in some > good time there and I think that when the realities of maintaining and > upgrading rpm systems hits they may change their minds. > > Here is the first obstacle - not really a big one, but I spent all day > digging around and couldn't really find any tools for this one: we want to be > able to clone the machines easily over the local net. Mandrake has a tricky > boot floppy that asks only for the eth0 config and then runs a bunch of perl > to do the rest of the install non-interactively. I haven't started reading > the scripts yet (that's plan B), instead I was hoping that someone had come > up with something similar for debian. We are looking at hundreds of boxes > already and its really just begun. > > This is really not a huge task - it would just make a nice splash over here > if we could come up with something ... > > I would greatly appreciate recieving help/ideas/advice on this - Note > however that I am not actually subscribed to the list at present (sorry, just > too much at the moment ) so you can reply to me personally if you like. > > Thanks very much in advance! I hope we can get this to happen. > > Erik Winn > > -- This is what you want I guess.Made for Debian
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