OK guru's. :-)
I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the
order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box.
All the destination boxes will be identical in specification, and the
same as the original. At this point (trial - only 15 to do), I've made
an image o
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:51:47PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
> OK guru's. :-)
>
> I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the
> order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box.
>
> All the destination boxes will be identical in specification, and the
> same as the
.. setup a scripted install using your favourite distribution.
(It has hooks to do that, right?)
.. get PXE booting working)
(Your hardware PXE boots by default, right?)
adrian
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:51:47PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
> > OK guru's. :-)
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:51:47 +1000
DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK guru's. :-)
>
> I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the
> order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box.
Are they all in the same geographical location / network ? If so then some
DaZZa wrote:
an image of the disk using DD to a USB attached drive - which works,
and gets the new boxes working, but takes 3+ hours to dump the image
back to the new boxes.
> 3+ hours over 5000 machines is not really acceptable. :-)
The USB is the bottleneck. You need to use 100 MB/s ethernet.
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Hi All,
I have had Doom2 working really well in a window using lxdoom and the
original wad files.
Since I have upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 it will not allow me to use lxdoom
and even an apt-get install lxdoom gets prboom.
prboom takes a long time to start
DaZZa wrote:
OK guru's. :-)
I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the
order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box.
All the destination boxes will be identical in specification, and the
same as the original. At this point (trial - only 15 to do), I've
