On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 10:43, Christopher Chan wrote: > Chadley Wilson wrote: > > It still requires loading each system one by one, whether by network or > > CD +- 45 mins per system. > > eh? You can have multiple systems installing via the network. Well I certainly appreciate the help, but I think you have missed my point, I am pressed for time and deadlines, from CD-Rom the smaller PCs (2.0 Gig Celerons 128 MB Ram) take 45 Mins plus to install, if I run network installs and there are 3 machines per techie loading, its close to 60 machines simultaneously. The speed reduction on a gigabit lan is incredible it drops to nearly an hour and a half per system. So duplicating the drives is the only solution we have @ 20 mins for 16 drives. I can prepare close 448 Linux hard drives a day using my two disk duplicators. But with the windows drive I can triple that with ease, because it only dumps the data not the free space too, a dump takes 3 mins for a 3gig install. So as you can see we are moving huge volumes and can't afford the usual conventional methodes for installation we must duplicate, and thats why I wanted a more desktop complete package, so that setting up a master drive will be quicker. Not necessarily with the latest packages and apps! We spend a enough time getting other funny hardware working as it is. Please understand we can spend two day getting a master right we have two hours tops. -- ****************************************************************** Chadley Wilson Soon 2 B RHCE Linux Rocks Welcome to my world. Enjoy the adventures of Linux *************************************************** Linux is easy, lazy people critise, curse and fail.
