Renai LeMay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At our company, I administer a network of Unix/Linux machines. Basically, > we're looking at setting up a series of debian machines in many different > locations, providing services to local users. > > What we'd like to do, is set up one machine as a debian template, if you > like. We'd like to be able to create other machines from this machine, with a > certain package set, and every time this template machine gets updated with > security patches etc, the rest of the machines should be able to download > those patches from the template machine. I think this can be done somehow > with apt and apt-able package repositories, but I'm not sure of the > specifics. The template machine must be able to handle debian source packages > also. > > The machines must be based on a 2.2 kernel, so we're thinking of using potato > as a base, and loading only the packages we need onto this template machine. > > can anyone suggest a method by which this can be done, and point me to > relevant URLs or HOWTO's?
Thomas Lange<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has written a piece of software called FAI (fully automatic installation) to automate setting up debian on a network of computers. I haven't used it, but it looks promising. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download. -- Bruce Mobarry
