Re: Quantum Snap Server - Opinions?

2002-07-23 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:26:59 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Seeing how they are both made from the same commodity i386 parts (and same basic software), I don't know that means much. Cobalt's original product line (the Qube) was a LAN server appliance (NFS/CIFS/etc). As I

.deb HOWTO

2002-07-23 Thread Cole Tuininga
Hi folks - I was curious if anybody knew of any resources on how to create .deb files for a project? I took a look through google and debian.org but didn't find much. Thanks in advance. -- Things are fine, the upcoming semester approaches like a brick wall and we're in a 1962 Corvair with

Re: .deb HOWTO

2002-07-23 Thread pll
On 23 Jul 2002 12:14:53 -0400 Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks - I was curious if anybody knew of any resources on how to create .deb files for a project? I took a look through google and debian.org but didn't find much. Thanks in advance. Check the Debian Maintainer's

Re: .deb HOWTO

2002-07-23 Thread bscott
On 23 Jul 2002, at 12:14pm, Cole Tuininga wrote: Hi folks - I was curious if anybody knew of any resources on how to create .deb files for a project? I took a look through google and debian.org but didn't find much. Did you find http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals? Look for maintainer

automated installation

2002-07-23 Thread Michael O'Donnell
I'm looking for an automated software installation mechanism - I want to be able to deliver software to my customers in such a way that they can install it on multiple machines as painlessly as possible. For example, one scheme I've heard of (but have been unable to find at scyld.com or

Re: automated installation

2002-07-23 Thread Joshua S. Freeman
go to http://www.finley.org (or finley.com.. i forget)... and look for system imager That oughta do it... J. On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Michael O'Donnell wrote: I'm looking for an automated software installation mechanism - I want to be able to deliver software to my customers in such a way

Re: automated installation

2002-07-23 Thread Ben Boulanger
We've used System Imager here with fairly good success. It's a bit like Solaris's jumpstart, so your machines need to have the ability to boot off the network, but it's pretty straightforward other than that. I've been toying around with partition image as well, which looks a little better

Re: automated installation

2002-07-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael O'Donnell) writes: I'm looking for an automated software installation mechanism - I want to be able to deliver software to my customers in such a way that they can install it on multiple machines as painlessly as possible. Would yet another Outlook virus solve

Re: automated installation

2002-07-23 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
You might want to check out the System Installer Suite at http://sisuite.org/ . VA also had something like this a while back, but I can't remember the name. It allowed you to have a Gold system, which was the one you wanted everything else to look like. Then you had the master server that

Re: automated installation

2002-07-23 Thread bscott
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, at 2:08pm, Michael O'Donnell wrote: I'm looking for an automated software installation mechanism - I want to be able to deliver software to my customers in such a way that they can install it on multiple machines as painlessly as possible. Others have provided many good

Re: automated installation

2002-07-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:21:55PM -0400, Ben Boulanger wrote: We've used System Imager here with fairly good success. It's a bit like Solaris's jumpstart, so your machines need to have the ability to boot off the network, but it's pretty straightforward other than that. You can use

Re: automated installation

2002-07-23 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:35:49PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, at 2:08pm, Michael O'Donnell wrote: I'm looking for an automated software installation mechanism - I want to be able to deliver software to my customers in such a way that they can install it on

Re: automated installation

2002-07-23 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Would yet another Outlook virus solve your problem here? It'd be painless and automated, right? (-: Heh. Now *that* is Market Penetration. (as in, bend over ) * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: automated installation

2002-07-23 Thread pll
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:08:49 -0400 Michael O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for an automated software installation mechanism - I want to be able to deliver software to my customers in such a way that they can install it on multiple machines as painlessly as possible. I think

Re: Formal trainning...

2002-07-23 Thread pll
What exactly do you want training in? Basic sysadmin, using Linux, installation, migration from Windows, using certain software packages under Linux? What are you attempting to do? There are a lot of different areas of UNIX/Linux that you can receive training for. Seeya, Paul

Re: automated installation

2002-07-23 Thread bscott
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, at 2:34pm, Mark Komarinski wrote: Every time I've used kickstart, there has been some serious bug in it. From messing up the partition table to mismatches between crypt/shadow/plaintext root password settings. The early iterations of Red Hat's anaconda install did have