As do I. Anyway, I think the speculation ran away with you guys. The problem was that they were provided a base image of an installation (which happened to be Red Hat) that they needed duplicated on 22 identical machines. They used Norton Ghost to duplicate the original drive on the others, with some success. However, there were some boot loader problems on some of the machines, so I came in today and used Mondo Rescue ( http://www.mondorescue.org ) to create a CD image of the original to restore on the others. The process went flawlessly (although a bit slow because of Mondo's default use of bzip2 compression), and the PCs are being delivered to the customer as I write this email.
An interesting project for the future would be to create a base install script of a distribution for selling low-end "internet appliance"-type PCs. I think http://www.oeone.com has the right product, and their inexpensive service ($19.95/year) extends the idea of an 'internet computer' and keeps users' data safely on the internet. -Tim Dustin Puryear wrote: > I always suggests RH since it has by far the widest support and > largest user base. > > Regards, Dustin > > At 03:28 PM 8/16/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >> thanks, but im not goin in till monday. they want a linux, and i was >> thinking of suse 8.0, are there any other suggestions? this distro is >> gonna go on older computers (as far as i know) >> >> --mat >> >> On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 14:46, Ed wrote: >> > At 11:26 AM 8/16/2002 -0700, you wrote: >> > >I agree with Ed. This is a bigger job than it may seem >> > >on the surface. >> > > >> > >The biggest unknown is the hardware. Is it working? >> > > >> > >If so, then the job becomes a little easier, provided >> > >all the hardware is pretty much the same. >> > > >> > >I'd recommend spending the majority of the time >> > >getting one machine configured well, and then making a >> > >disk image of the drive and then duplicating that. >> > > >> > >Mat, holler on the list if you need help. I may be >> > >able to help over the weekend, but it would be much >> > >smarter to take more time to get it done right. >> > Matt, >> > >> > I will be around this weekend as well and will be glad to help out >> as long >> > as y'all understand that I am no expert! >> > >> > Ed Richards >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > General mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Puryear Information Technology > Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting > http://www.puryear-it.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
