On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > 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 - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Are you aware of cobbler and koan packages? It might meet your needs quite well. There is some learning to do at first, but documentation is extensive, there is a wiki page at https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ and mail list. People do amazing things with this program. Leon -- 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
