----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, September 1, 2005 0:41 am Subject: Re: fastest way to get Fedora up on a new PC?
> > You really haven't said what you want to do with this installation. > > Are there several identical PCs, or is this a one-shot deal? > > Thanks for the help. I run a LAN with about 20 PCs and about 20 > developers all pounding on these machines every day. > > Sometimes PCs get messed up for various reasons. > > I'd like a fast way to just restore PCs to a known state > instead of always trying to waste time fixing config errors. > > Some people may not like my drastic solution if they have > to wait 2 hours for Kickstart to give them a virgin Fedora > again. > > Hence my motivation to explore Xen, LTSP and anything else > that can get someone a virgin Fedora faster so everyone > can move on with their life. I'd suggest either a ghost image, or similar (much faster to restore than 2 hours), or run base OS, and do developement work on VMWare Linux session (instantaneous restore), or run via thin client to a server where you have default setups ready to clone. Rich -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
