Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:27, Marc M wrote:
If you only have a handful of machines with exactly identical
hardware, you could probably swap out drives if you would prefer,
especially if you have removable drive bays. But really for anything
more than about two or three installs, I strongly recommend a
kickstart based install method.
But then you have to do updates to each new copy and add all of
your own setup. With an image or file based copy you get a
copy will all changes after the install intact. The ultimate
method is to build your own rpm repository, add all of your
own programs and config changes packaged as rpms. Then you
can do a kickstart install against that and get a current
version and update any older installations against it with
yum, apt-get, or up2date.
HP does something similar in house. They have a kick-start-o-matic
style web page where you design your system (name, ip, packages, etc)
and then it creates a custom iso that you can burn to cd and use to boot
and network install your new system.
