On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 17:25, Dean Michael C. Berris wrote: > Now the faculty are having problems figuring out how to setup all the > boxes so that administration is minimal, and that installation would be > a breeze. But the last thing that's easy in Linux are both installation > and administration. > > Are there any suggestions about strategies and practices that could ease > the pain of migrating systems to Linux? Or even just setting them up > from scratch?
this isn't exactly a full linux only solution but i hear that the new norton ghost supports ntfs and ext2/ext3 partitions. you could use that to keep images on a central server since norton ghost also supports network boot and image writes over the network. you could then schedule maintainance at let's say, every saturday evening? i haven't tested this at all though. as for user data, you could set up a samba server and ask everybody to store their data there. this would require only a one time setup on each unique PC (you can use the same image for identical PCs). just a thought. hope this helps. -justin -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
