Thanks for the reply. I have been looking at my test PC which also has Mandrake Linux 8 on it. In total df shows just under 1.8Gig used. At that size I might only need one CD and a controlling floppy. I am wondering if it would be practical to tar and bzip2 the partitions, which are / /home /usr /var and set up a floppy and CD, or even a bootable CD to clone the first PC. At the moment I think I need to partition and format the disc and mount the partitions then unpack the various compressed files to the correct places then run lilo to end up with the copy. I expect I will need to learn quite a bit such as how to partition the discs without user intervention but is it practical? Norm "Michael D. Viron" wrote: > > During an expert installation of MandrakeLinux 8, it should ask if you want > to create a "replication" floppy--at least it does with 7.2 not sure about > 8.0 or 8.1. I'm not sure how exactly it works, but it should be pretty > close to what you want. > > Michael > > -- > Michael Viron > Registered Linux User #81978 > Senior Systems & Administration Consultant > Web Spinners, University of West Florida > > 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
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