(Sending again cause I forgot to do reply-to-all) For customizing a Live CD I would start out with Reconstructor ( http://reconstructor.aperantis.com/). I'm not really sure the best way to do a mass install. -Bryan
On 7/27/07, Phyo W. Soe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a server running Edubuntu 6. I also have mini PCs that don't have > any CD-ROM drives, have 2GB of Flash memory as hard disks (just to > install the OS, storage will be on the server). They also have Ethernet > connectors. > > What I would like to do is to install Edubuntu on those mini PCs. I want > to put the contents of Live CD on the server PC and when the miniPCs > boot up, they will get the required kernel and packages from the > server's HDD (probably using PXEBoot). That way, the miniPCs won't have > to download packages from Internet whenever they need to install > Edubuntu on them. > > What I would like to know is how to create a custom Live CD. This is > necessary since the miniPCs have only 2GB of Flash and all unnecessary > packages have to be left out. I found a tutorial for that here: > http://www.atworkonline.it/~bibe/ubuntu/custom-livecd.htm I don't know > if the same methods can be used for Edubuntu. Do you think there are > better ways to do that? > > Besides customizing the live CD, I want to put drivers (for sound card, > NIC, etc.,) for the miniPCs on the new Live CD so that during > installation, the system will find necessary drivers. Do I have to > recompile the kernel to do this? I would also like to know how to > configure PXE so that the server will tell the miniPCs to get the > required kernel and packages from its HDD. > > Now for installation. Since there are many miniPCs, I'd like to do mass > installation. Which will be the suitable tool for this? I saw that FAI > support Debian. Can I use FAI to mass install Edubuntu? > > Any advice/help would be truly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > P > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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