Gentoo installs most of their distro through a Tar file which is extracted. That would get most installs going for you. The only thing you'd need would be to initially partition the system, create the filesystems, and then after untarring, get GRUB set up. There are some things like hostnames and stuff that I'm skipping past, but again, these shouldn't be too hard to figure out...
There's no real reason this wouldn't work for any other distro too. Just build the initial machine, then tar it up, then create a bootable cd/dvd/floppy which runs the various scripts to complete the install. If it was me, I'd create a bootable floppy that did this, and then untarred a file that was storred in a central location. That would allow you to just replace the central tarball, and have everyone drop in their floppy on a Friday night, and they'd come back to re-imaged machines on Monday. Of course, Novell's ZENworks has been able to do this for years, but I'm assuming you aren't looking for that caliber of configurability/scalability/cost/etc... Kev. On Thursday 13 May 2004 08:24, Curtis Sloan wrote: > There are two general methods that I am aware of: > > 1) Automated (scripted) installs > 2) Byte-for-byte imaging, a la Ghost > > Are there any solutions using either of these methods (or other methods I'm > not aware of) for putting a Linux workstation image on multiple desktops > simultaneously via the network? > > I really don't want to use CDs and a boot disk. :-P > > Thanks, > Curtis > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
