On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Thomas Lamy wrote: > Hi, > > some days ago I had the task of setting up 6 debian servers for our web > server farm. It was rather boring to do the base install, alter the apt.conf > and sources.list (we run a combo of testing/stable), de-select unwanted > default packages (you know the score...). > > I'd like to streamline that task, as there are another 10 servers next month > that need the same procedure. > > In SuSE, it was an easy task, as you could save the state of installed > packages on a running machine, and inject that at the base install stage, so > there were only custom packes (and configuration) left. > I don't know how well this may meet your requirements, but I've found that jablicator does a good job of this for Debian.. It creates a package that has all the currently installed packages as dependacies, so when you install it on a new machine, it loads on all the other packages too.
> I thought it would be the easiest way to use tasksel for that, but I didn't > find a way to import external data (even hand-made) to define a new "task". > > Another thought was to use some netinstall iso, and tweak it (alter the > basedebs.tar, sources.list) to my needs. > > HD cloning is not really an option, as most times the source HDD won't match > the new ones, and I'd also like to use this procedure to convert the rest of > the SuSE machines here. > > So, what are you using? > > > Thomas > > > -- Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.
