On 22 Jul, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Markus A. Wipfler wrote:
Hi all,
what are my options for automating installation of 15 PCs (same
hardware)? I want to avoid installing them 1 by 1, or having to
burn 15 cd's.
In addition to the already excellent suggestions, you could try g4l
(sourceforge and google should bring up a hit).
You basically download the g4l bootable iso, get one machine setup the
way you want, boot the other machines off the g4l disk (disk only
needs to be in drive for boot, so you don't need 15cds) and select
multicast client.
Lastly reboot the machine you've just installed as your master and
select multicast server and it should install all the remaining
machines.
We've used this to install 40 machines in an AfNOG lab. We used the
disk block copy option (rather than partition) so to make this faster
we dd'ed /dev/zero across the entire disk (off an ubuntu bootable cd)
so it didn't try to multicast extra empty space.
This method is antagonistic to what operating system(s) you install on
the master - and has the prerequisites of a fast network (gig-e if you
can) and DHCP is optional but saves you setting IPs on each client.
g4u is a similar tool based on one of the BSDs but I preferred g4l.
--
patrick
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