On 11/08/2010 11:48 AM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 14:09 +0100, Bernd Nies wrote: >> is there another better way to install some hundred Workstations with >> as little user untervention as possible. > > I've always wondered about this, and I'd be surprised if someone on the > list hasn't tried it, but: Is it quicker, than doing individual > automated installs to, build one system, and then clone the drive for > each other work station? Assuming the hardware and such on the other stations are identical, you can ghost the drives or use some commercial product (e.g. Acronis) and clone to your heart's content. If they're not identical (ESPECIALLY if you have to use different disk drivers), then you'll have to rebuild the boot ramdisks and such after cloning (e.g. boot off a rescue CD, chroot to the root of the installed system and use dracut or mkinitrd or whatever to rebuild it). We do both cloning and PXE boot kickstarts off network installs. Depends on your pain tolerance. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - The problem with being poor is that it takes up all of your time - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
