I had heard that they were replacing the state's entire IT infrastructure with Debian. This is wrong?
At 04:00 PM 8/16/2002 -0500, you wrote: >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 > > > > >_______________________________________________ >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
