On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Dan Farrell wrote:
hmm... network booting? network mounting? install packages once on
one system, share them with everyone. Share passwd/shadow files and
the like manually, or symlink them to skeletal versions symlinked to
somewhere that can be obscured and replaced by a network boot. you
could even boot them from thumb drives or cds.
of course, it would be a good bit of work to configure initially,
and might not go whithout a hitch.
For configuration, you may want to look at something like puppet to manage
that. Your build machine would the puppetmaster and keep the other
machines' configs up-to-date.
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