On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > Hmmmm, > I wonder if its possible to create an master 'image' and xfer it over to > other machines. Of course all the machines must the same hardware.
Yes, that's what I was referring to when I talked about using rdist (which is how we keep our sunos and solaris machines in sync). But as you pointed out, this requires that the machines have very similar hardware configurations, and I can't assume this especially when it comes to video support. Also, using rdist will mean that the installed packages info for dpkg will be incorrect on all other machines besides the master image machine (if the owner of one machine adds a package for example, that info would go away if I pushed over an dpkg info file from the master). The ideal way would be for dpkg or dselect to be more network aware, and allow remote installs. The main problem right now is that there is no way to save all the keystrokes that I'd type during the configuration stage, so I have to type the same things for each install.