Re: debian in a lab

1997-04-16 Thread meierrj
Christoph, ..., I usually install [packages] ... in a directory /usr/local/packages/package_name ... I use a script to move files into the correct directories. The appeal of such an approach is [ability to] use any packages ... without [installing] anything locally except a set of

dselect deity and debian in the lab

1997-04-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I'd like to suggest that the deity team take into consideration the open problem of installing and maintaining packages accross NFS-mounted volumes (see the recent thread debian in the lab in this list). I believe that making deity NFS-aware will take the debian packaging system one

Re: debian in a lab

1997-04-13 Thread Craig Sanders
On 9 Apr 1997, Graeme Stewart wrote: The ideal situation, I think, would be for dselect to have an option where by it can be told that certain directories are NFS mounted. It should then do the installation as normal, but not copy files to these directories (or attempt to delete them upon

Re: debian in a lab

1997-04-10 Thread Christoph Best
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kay Nettle) wrote: We're planning on installing debian in a lab of about 50 machines and were wondering if anyone had come up with a good way to install it over the net. We want to spend as little time on each machine as possible. We have been running about

debian in a lab

1997-04-09 Thread Kay Nettle
Hi, We're planning on installing debian in a lab of about 50 machines and were wondering if anyone had come up with a good way to install it over the net. We want to spend as little time on each machine as possible. Each machine will be on the net. We've thought of a couple of ways

Re: debian in a lab

1997-04-09 Thread Jason Killen
and it was slow I could run ls and go get a coke. The best way to keep up with what is in /usr would probally be nis. Sorry for the rambling. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Hi, We're planning on installing debian in a lab of about 50 machines and were wondering if anyone had come

Re: debian in a lab

1997-04-09 Thread Graeme Stewart
Hi Kay, We currently have 5 Debian clients running with /usr, /home and bits of /var (shared tfm and pk font files). The system runs really well over our not too busy 10Mbps ethernet. This may be because we have a good server, PPro 200MHz with 64MB and a fast-wide SCSI disk, so your milage might