Hmmmm, I wonder if its possible to create an master 'image' and xfer it over to other machines. Of course all the machines must the same hardware.
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Steve Hsieh wrote: > > Having used debian for quite awhile now, I've really come to appreciate > the package system and it works great on an individual machine basis. > But as soon as you have to start keeping many debian systems in sync with > each other, it starts to get time consuming using dselect. > > How have others tackled this problem of keeping 10 or more debian linux > machines synced together? I assume you don't go about running dselect on > each machine. One alternative I can think of is to use dpkg > --get-selection to get the list of installed packages on a master machine, > and then use dpkg --set-selection on the rest of the machines to set what > is selected to be installed, and then to run dpkg over there. Still in > that case, I still have to babysit each install process and answer the > same questions in the post-install scripts as I did on the master machine. > > The other alternative seems to be using rdist or some similar program and > rdisting /usr and selected parts of /var to the other machines. But in > that case, I break the package lists on the other machines since the other > machines will no longer know the correct list of packages already > installed, and it is conceivable that someone might want to add one or two > packages not in the "standard" distribution in which case it might fail. > > Ideas? > > Thanks. > > > >
