Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync

1997-04-03 Thread Matthew Tebbens
H, I wonder if its possible to create an master 'image' and xfer it over to other machines. Of course all the machines must the same hardware. On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: Having used debian for quite awhile now, I've really come to appreciate the package system and it works

Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync

1997-04-03 Thread Paul Wade
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: The ideal way would be for dpkg or dselect to be more network aware, and allow remote installs. The main problem right now is that there is no way to save all the keystrokes that I'd type during the configuration stage, so I have to type the same

Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync

1997-04-03 Thread Rick Hawkins
The ideal way would be for dpkg or dselect to be more network aware, and allow remote installs. The main problem right now is that there is no way to save all the keystrokes that I'd type during the configuration stage, so I have to type the same things for each install. just off the top

Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync

1997-04-03 Thread Steve Hsieh
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: H, I wonder if its possible to create an master 'image' and xfer it over to other machines. Of course all the machines must the same hardware. Yes, that's what I was referring to when I talked about using rdist (which is how we keep our sunos

Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync / dselect dependecies

1997-04-03 Thread Steve Hsieh
This brings up another point -- why can't dselect list the order in which deb files should be installed for me? Or can it and I just don't know? Right now, when you use dselect, it seems to just try to install packages in alphabetical-recursive order (which is why I run into catch-22 problems

Re: keeping multiple debian machines in sync / dselect dependecies

1997-04-03 Thread Paul Wade
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: This brings up another point -- why can't dselect list the order in which deb files should be installed for me? Or can it and I just don't know? Right now, when you use dselect, it seems to just try to install packages in alphabetical-recursive order

RE: keeping multiple debian machines in sync

1997-04-02 Thread Rick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 02-Apr-97 Steve Hsieh wrote: Having used debian for quite awhile now, I've really come to appreciate the package system and it works great on an individual machine basis. But as soon as you have to start keeping many debian systems in sync with each

keeping multiple debian machines in sync

1997-04-02 Thread Steve Hsieh
Having used debian for quite awhile now, I've really come to appreciate the package system and it works great on an individual machine basis. But as soon as you have to start keeping many debian systems in sync with each other, it starts to get time consuming using dselect. How have others