The high quality replies I received (especially from
Jens B. Jorgensen) solved my problem.
(see http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-0001/msg02027.html)
It also gave me an idea:
Wouldn't it be great if there was ONE Linux boot-floppy
that would mount (SMB or NFS?) a complete
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
[excellent post snipped]
A really simple way to do this is to use multicast ghost.
Make a boot floppy with a packet driver to suit the NIC
Use it or 50 copies of it to boot the 50 workstations and run ghost
Run dhcp somewhere.
Run ghostsrv
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 11:43:17AM +0100, Onno Ebbinge wrote:
I'm a sysadmin and have two Debian GNU/Linux potato servers and 50
windows 95 workstations under my care.
My problem is with the 50 workstations:
(the 50 workstations have the same hardware)
I want to install ONE
hi onno
i'd try something like...
- use a bootable cdrom ( rescue disk )...
- boot linux with network capability
( use linuxcare' bootable cdrom - business card size
- if not use (slackware) root/boot floppy image
- or use flash IDE disk to boot each w/s
- than
I'm a sysadmin and have two Debian GNU/Linux potato servers and 50
windows 95 workstations under my care.
My problem is with the 50 workstations:
(the 50 workstations have the same hardware)
I want to install ONE workstation and then mirror the hard disk to
all other workstations.
The first
I don't suppose your workstations have NICs with PXE support do they? If so you
could
use bpbatch (www.bpbatch.com) to boot them over the network. bpbatch supports a
small
scripting language which will allow you to partition the disks and load whole
linux
images into the disks (just what you
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