Re: [SLUG] Easy way to duplicate a setup?

2008-04-28 Thread Glen Turner
DaZZa wrote: OK guru's. :-) I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box. All the destination boxes will be identical in specification, and the same as the original. At this point (trial - only 15 to do), I've

Re: [SLUG] Easy way to duplicate a setup?

2008-04-28 Thread Peter Chubb
DaZZa wrote: OK guru's. :-) I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box. All the destination boxes will be identical in specification, and the same as the original. At this point (trial - only 15 to

Re: [SLUG] Easy way to duplicate a setup?

2008-04-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=DaZZa I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box. All the destination boxes will be identical in specification, and the same as the original. At this point (trial - only 15 to do), I've made an

Re: [SLUG] Easy way to duplicate a setup?

2008-04-28 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:51 PM, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK guru's. :-) I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box. All the destination boxes will be identical in specification, and the same

Re: [SLUG] Easy way to duplicate a setup?

2008-04-28 Thread jam
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 17:09 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box. All the destination boxes will be identical in

Re: [SLUG] Easy way to duplicate a setup?

2008-04-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:51:47PM +1000, DaZZa wrote: OK guru's. :-) I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box. All the destination boxes will be identical in specification, and the same as the

Re: [SLUG] Easy way to duplicate a setup?

2008-04-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. setup a scripted install using your favourite distribution. (It has hooks to do that, right?) .. get PXE booting working) (Your hardware PXE boots by default, right?) adrian On Mon, Apr 28, 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:51:47PM +1000, DaZZa wrote: OK guru's. :-)

Re: [SLUG] Easy way to duplicate a setup?

2008-04-27 Thread Mick Pollard
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:51:47 +1000 DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK guru's. :-) I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box. Are they all in the same geographical location / network ? If so then some sort

Re: [SLUG] Easy way to duplicate a setup?

2008-04-27 Thread Michael Lake
DaZZa wrote: an image of the disk using DD to a USB attached drive - which works, and gets the new boxes working, but takes 3+ hours to dump the image back to the new boxes. 3+ hours over 5000 machines is not really acceptable. :-) The USB is the bottleneck. You need to use 100 MB/s ethernet.