On Wed, 22 May 2002, Ben Boulanger wrote: > Have a working box > must make duplicates of this box for other customers > > Want to make it: > a) easy to duplicate > b) easy to recover from if the customer whacks files > c) cheap to ship
Once upon a time, I did something similar -- but my approach (which may or may not fit your scenario) was to have a bootable floppy which then loaded up a filesystem on a remote NFS server as root (I think I had / and something else in RAM for some reason; the details are hazy). I could then, with a bit of tweaking, run -anything- off the remote server. It was pretty nifty! Worked great for my old IBM 701C's that didn't have CD-ROM drives. I could then just copy the contents of the HD around, or re-image it, at will. Definitely took a fair bit of work, but at the end of the day, it was really, really cool to be able to slip a floppy into most any system (even a Windows system!), and be running full-fledged Linux on it within two minutes. -Ken ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
