Loren, You may want to have a look at this:
www.systemimager.org ~~Rick King -----Original Message----- From: Loren M. Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 3:37 PM To: Debian-User Mailing List Subject: Replicating Debian Systems I may have to rapidly deploy multiple debian systems that will have the same software installed and be configured the same way. The ideal way to install debian would be to stick a cd into a computer, turn it on, and come back a couple hours later. If I could make a custom cd to do just that and maybe d/l the packages off of the web or another computer that don't fit on the cd would be nice. I also have some of my own software to install and also need to modify files like .profile in the users home dir as well as setup one users with password on the system. Maybe I'll have to learn how to make deb packages. I don't want the installer to ask questions for each packages like exim's mail configuration. I know I can turn it off by modifying a file and telling them to be silent, but instead I'd just like to have a text file that specifies the correct answer to all of them. Does debian provide a way to do this? My last problem is that some software is too old in stable, I've had to upgrade several programs including XFree86 on some systems already installed. I know about backports.org, but some programs like gnuplot don't have a backport, and I'm debating about using testing/unstable, but I want to believe that the system will be stable since I won't be down there most of the time and ppl who know nothing about linux will be using it. -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C
