for linux look at FAI
for windows: no you must have one images per machine type.
keep in mind that installation can take longer then imaging.
Thanks, but FAI is to complicated and i have not enough time to become
acquainted with it, at the time. The HowTo for FAI in the
debian-edu-wiki, doesn't work. Following it, there is installed sth.
very straight, which i wouldn't call skolelinux, maybe it's his crazy
cousin :-) .
For the first installation, i will use unattended cd creator for windows
and pressed files for debian (i use an small debian and install the
needed debian-edu packages, because otherwise i get some problems on
our Laptops). That's ok, so far, i have to make it 8 times.
After this i will sharing the images with clonezilla. I will also use
it, when i've to make bigger changes. That's also ok.
But i'm looking for way to make small changes, like update a system or
install one software. For linux, the dancing shell (dsh) works fine. I'm
looking for something similar for windows. Even a program, which offers
me to run little scripts on the clients, e. g. a setup.exe using the
s-switches (/S, /verysilent, ...).
But you can replace a imaging system with a remote installation system
like http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ (only xp without hacking) this
system also let windows get the hostname from dns.
Is there an other way to share hostnames for the windowsclients
automatically?
Remote parallel installations of windows and linux seems to be a cruel
thing ...
Thanks, martin
Ronny Aasen schrieb:
Martin Schulte wrote:
Hi,
after trying out some things and encountered several error-messages,
i find a way, to install a SkoleLinux network with double boot
computers (Windows / Linux) automatically. And another way to install
the Debian clients also automatically but faster. But i have some
further question, hopefully someone can help me. First a short
overview about the install process. If there is any interest, i will
write an article for the wiki.
1. This is the situation in my school, maybe someone knows a better
way, as described below:
We have a common network with another school, which is in the same
building. We also have an large wlan-grid. All in all, there are 78
PCs and 54 notebooks (8 different hardware-architectures, but 4 of
them only distinguish by the harddisk). The notebooks access the
network using wlan. On the most PCs and on all Laptops linux and
windowsXP are installed parallel (or will be). There are several
proprietary software which runs under windows and with wine under
debian. Up to now, we had novell netware 5.* running on the server,
no dhcp.
First question:
Is it possible to assume the user-names from the novell server?
Passwords doesn't matter.
2. Installation of the double-boot-clients
I have a second client, which run a (small) debian-system. I
installed drbl and clonezilla server edition ( http://clonezilla.org/ ).
Fully install one client of every hardware-architecture. Setup
clonezilla that way, that it catch the image. Reboot this client
using pxe and the image will be create an restore on server. (it
needs ca. 2 min pro 1GB). When finished, setup clonezilla to share
the image using multicast --> start the clients, you want to get this
image --> be sure, these clients boot via pxe. After this, restoring
image will begin (without any interaction, it will take ca. 1,5 min
pro 1 GB).
It is possible to run clonezilla SE on tjener, but i think it isn't a
good way.
So my second question:
*Up to now, i've to change the windows-hostname manual. Is it
possible to share the hostnames for the windows-clients automatically?
*Till now, i poweroff tjener, because i don't know how to change the
address of the pxe-boot server. I thought, there have to be an entry
like this
----------
next-server 10.0.2.3;
----------
but, Petter Reinholdtsen told me, that it is in the ldap-database.
But i don't know how to change it.
*Is 10.0.2.3 a good IP-Address for a second server in a
skolelinux-network?
* I've to change the windows-hostname manually. Is there a
possibility to set them automatically?
3. Installation of the debian clients
On server install SystemImager ( systemimager.org ). Create an image
of the client which will transfer via TCP to the server. On server
select the clients, which should be installed. When start or
rebooting this clients, they get the image while booting over PXE. I
set up 5 clients in my test-environment, it takes 6 minutes. I will
use this procedure to install new software on the "without windows"
clients or update them.
But still the problem is, i have to install the new software on 4
computers and have to build an image of this 4 computers.
So my third question
*Is it possible to create something like an 'universal bootimage',
which can be installed on all clients, independent of the
hardware-architecture?
for linux look at FAI
for windows: no you must have one images per machine type. But you can
replace a imaging system with a remote installation system like
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ (only xp without hacking) this
system also let windows get the hostname from dns.
keep in mind that installation can take longer then imaging.
Ronny
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