installing linux on 30 pcs thru nfs, ftp or http is boring. if you have a new set of pcs, the best thing is do a remote install thru pxe. i have tried this on windows RAS with pcs not necessarily having the same hardware but not yet in linux. give it a try and let us know the result. this may be helpful.
http://people.redhat.com/~alikins/ltsp/pxe/pxe-2md.txt rowel On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Pablo Manalastas wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Nhadie Ramos wrote: > > > i have 30 workstation and only one has a CDOM drive, i > > have to install linux on all machines,.. > > This method sounds crazy, but it can work, and might > be the most efficient way of doing it for 30 machines, > assuming that the machines have identical hardware: > same network card, same video controller, same sound > card, etc. > > 1. Install Linux on the machine with CD drive, configure X, > networking, sound, etc. until everythings works perfectly. > > 2. Do a disk copy, > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1k > > to copy the new installation to each hard disk of the 29 other > machines. You need to remove each hard disk and cable it as > the second drive on the original machine. > > 3. Put back the hard disks into the 29 machines, boot each machine > and do a netconfig on each one to change the IP address. > > PMana > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
