i got one. First, make a bootable Linux Diskette. 2- make a batch file that: -formats an ext2 partition ( i don't know if you can make a batch for creating the swap, and i don't think so..) -decompresses the files, opening the archive from CDROM, directly to the drive. -this script should be on the linux diskette, or in another one, but keep it handy. once you got all the files archived from a successfull Linux installation, burn them to CD. then boot the target machine/s with the linux distette and run the script. it should format the drive and then uncompress the files there. as for the files that require to have the machine's name... i don't know but there should be a system variable so the batch can rename the files that need to be renamed... or, if you know anything about programming, you could make a small program to do it to change the contents of files that need editing.... anyway this is just an idea, i'm not sure if this kind of "installation" would work. here's another one. make a bootable windows 98 diskette. boot on the linux machine with it. then, using Norton Ghost for DOS ( i figure you know the program i'm talking about ) you can make an identical image of a partition to a " .gho " file. burn that file to CD. then, using the same diskette, you could boot the other machines and use ghost to "restore partition information to disk" from the .gho file in the CDROM. Ghost is a very nice DOS program, and pretty powerful, it can add compression to the backup file and has many features. though i'm not sure if it will read linux partitions. if it does, then this method would probably boot . Anyway you are still left alone to the "machine name" problems you could have... bye.. >At 12:46 PM 09/19/2001 -0400, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I recently installed MandrakeLinux 8 for a school > > > >and set up Squid as a proxy server for their Win98 PC's > > > >They are now interested in having Linux for a number of > > > >their Desktop PC's. I would be happy to install it but, > > > >as many of them are identical, I wondered if it would > > > >be possible to install on one then create a cd with > > > >a copy of it and have some means of automatically > > > >reinstalling the identical configuration on the others. > > > >I realise that it would need things like host names to > > > >be different on each one but I think it should be possible > > > >to write some small script to allow that sort of question to > > > >be asked. Does anyone have any idea how I could go about this? > > > >Thanks. > > > >Norman > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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