On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 11:31, Christopher Chan wrote: > Chadley Wilson wrote: > > 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. > > Is your switch saturated or the Gigabit link that is? Can you add a few > more NIC cards to the rpm repository box? I am not sure what you mean! :-/ > > > 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! > > So you are saying with a network install your boys and gals still need > to some more installing of apps that don't come with the distro? Yes! because I don't have a repository, We use std NFS from the ISOs on the server. > > 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 critiChadsnewcise, curse and fail.
