Hi, We're planning on installing debian in a lab of about 50 machines and were wondering if anyone had come up with a good way to install it over the net. We want to spend as little time on each machine as possible. Each machine will be on the net. We've thought of a couple of ways to do this, like: creating a template machine and then stuffing the disk image on all the others, or just using the normal debian install (but we're worried we'd have to spend to much time on each machine).
There are a couple of other questions we have as well. Has anyone nfs mounted /usr and if so how do you handle updates to packages? Also, what is the process for creating local packages that override standard packages? Thanks, Kay