I also started out running a similar system,
I have run windows setup originally using unattend, but fell back to
using a ghost image + wpkg.
Even when automated, the clients took 3-4 hours to install. I now
roll-up my current WPKG SOE 1 or 2 times a year into a new ghost image.
This brings total installation time to between 15min-45min for a
desktop, 2-3hours laptop (They're Encrypted).
In fact I just reached 200 managed packages today after 12 months of
using WPKG.
For an organisation with 300 users we have ALOT of software, something
in the order of 400 different active titles. The biggest difficulty is
re-packaging, Appdeploy.com helps alot.
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Michael Chinn
User Support Officer - Information Technology
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
PO Box 1379
TOWNSVILLE, QLD 4810
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Kevin Landers wrote, On 17/10/2008 10:20:
Hi Berge,
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Berge Schwebs Bjørlo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
FWIW, we use a method similar to Rainer Meier's method, but
started in a
different way. We've made a (rather hackish, but effective) unattended
Windows installation suite (which boots Linux off PXE, mounts an
installation
share, partitions disks and run Windows Setup in dosemu). Windows
Setup is
fed with a file called unattend.txt - among other things, it
installs WPKG
I can give you the details if you're interested.
I would be very interested in hearing your methods for such an
installation process. I have long thought it to make sense to perform
such roll outs via a PXE boot. I would have never thought to utilize
dosemu in that way though. Any and all insight you could provide about
this would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps if you are willing, we
could move such information to the wiki, etc. *Believes heavily in
documentation* ;)
Thanks,
landersk
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