Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-08 Thread Vihan Pandey
HA HA. Guess wot. got a licenced copy of windows xp media edition and installed on my debian media center box. HELP i am crossing over to the dark side. May the force be with you :-) To KG: Do not underestimate the power of the dark side :-) Regards, - vihan --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-07 Thread Debarshi Ray
Debian GNU/Linux in a lab of about 50 computers.Is there any possiblities of doing something like creating a image in one hard disk and installing it from that instead of installing the base system in each system individually (something like gHost images for the M$ OS) If all the machines

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-07 Thread jtd
On Sunday 07 January 2007 12:08, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 06-Jan-07, at 10:11 PM, Dinesh Shah wrote: You can use gnu software in every imaginable commercial way subject to not violating the gpl. I do. My god! You violate GPL? Such a sacrilege and you are publicly admitting it!.

[ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Koustubha Kale
Hi, I have a Linux server working very well. It consists of a lot of software like qmail and stuff which I downloaded and compiled. And also a lot of configurations, users etc. during reinstall if I just use the distro ( CentOS in this case) I would spend a lot of time again to get the server in

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread jtd
On Saturday 06 January 2007 17:20, Koustubha Kale wrote: Hi, I have a Linux server working very well. It consists of a lot of software like qmail and stuff which I downloaded and compiled. And also a lot of configurations, users etc. during reinstall if I just use the distro ( CentOS in this

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Koustubha Kale wrote: Hi, I have a Linux server working very well. It consists of a lot of software like qmail and stuff which I downloaded and compiled. And also a lot of configurations, users etc. during reinstall if I just use the distro ( CentOS in this case) I would spend a lot of time

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Koustubha Kale
--- jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 06 January 2007 17:20, Koustubha Kale wrote: Hi, I have a Linux server working very well. It consists of a lot of software like qmail and stuff which I downloaded and compiled. And also a lot of configurations, users etc. during reinstall

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Koustubha Kale
--- Dhawal Doshy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to sort of image it so I can reinstall it painlessly if it crashes. Or I can install it on some other server so as to replicate the setup. What are the best ways to do this? (Apart from using commercial Imaging or Disaster

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Balachandran Sivakumar
On 1/6/07, jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a What are the best ways to do this? (Apart from using commercial Imaging or Disaster Recovery software.) I have a similar but a different problem. I need to install Debian GNU/Linux in a lab of about 50 computers.Is there any possiblities of

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Dinesh Shah
Dear Terrence, On 1/6/07, jtd jtd at mtnl dot net dot in wrote: You can use gnu software in every imaginable commercial way subject to not violating the gpl. I do. My god! You violate GPL? Such a sacrilege and you are publicly admitting it!. :-) -- Rgd JTD With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Rony
Koustubha Kale wrote: I am looking for a way to image a working server into a installable CD set. Which can be carried around, installed somewhere else easily etc. Any OSS for doing this? You don't need to install any special packages. You need to learn the procedure for taking

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 06/01/07 17:59 +0530, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote: On 1/6/07, jtd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a What are the best ways to do this? (Apart from using commercial Imaging or Disaster Recovery software.) I have a similar but a different problem. I need to install Debian

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ways to get a working Linux server in to an installable CD set for future reinstall?

2007-01-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 06-Jan-07, at 5:59 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote: I have a similar but a different problem. I need to install Debian GNU/Linux in a lab of about 50 computers.Is there any possiblities of doing something like creating a image in one hard disk and installing it from that instead of