Hi Aaron, Thanks very much for the pointer - I'm reading the docs for it and it looks very promising. Might even be worth building a couple of debs from it ... no promises on that right now though :).
Happy "whicheveryouprefer"! Erik Winn On Monday 25 December 2000 01:08, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 12:15:50AM -0800, Erik Winn wrote: > > 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. > > boot floppy that asks only for the eth0 config and t > > While I was at VA, I worked with SystemImager, which is available at > http://systemimager.org. It might be what you're looking for. It > requires the hardware to be basically identical across machines. Once > you set up the server, which is a significant task, cloning the master > client onto the other clients is a cinch, involving putting the > automatically-generated floppy disk into the disk drive and turning on > the computer. > > I wrote a setup guide for SystemImager a few months ago. > Unfortunately, I seem to have lost it :-(. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------