On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:12:03PM +0000, Paul Sargent wrote: > Hi People, > > I'm currently in the process of preparing to install several Debian boxes > which will be used to form a processing farm. I'm therefore looking for ways > to ease the installation so that it's not going to need lots of hand > tweeking along the way.
There are some package to control multiple machine install. Look up recent post on this matter through google :-) Here is an mature view. I use "squid" for caching only ones downloaded. Another approach is NSF mount /var/apt/cache and share its content between machine. Making tar image and copy to another achine is another trick. > 1) I'm booting the machine off the current woody rescue/root images > (ReiserFS ones). Everything works great until it tries to install the > base distribution. Because my mirror is of Woody and Sid, the > installation fails because there are still several packages linked over > to Potato. One of these is "at", which is part of the base distribution. > My mirror is already 8G and I really don't want to add another 5 to that > to mirror Potato as well. Does anybody have any idea how to get around > this? Instead of running full mirror, properly configured squid proxy may require smaller foot print since it store only recently used ones. > 2) Once the base installation is complete (by pointing it to an outside > mirror), I want to be able to select a particular set of packes and have > them install. I was planning to tweak the package set-up on the first box > until I have exactly what I want, and then use "dpkg --get-selections" to > save it. Good > The problem is that when I use "dpkg --set-selections < [file]" it > appears to add the extra packages I've chosen, but not remove packages > I've gotten rid of of the first machine. Does anybody know of a method to > get a package selection list from machine A to machine B, so machine B > ends up with exactly the same packages installed regardless of what was > there before? how about doing "dpkg --get-selections > file.new" again. Then use sort and uniq to create remove list. Then "dpkg --remove `cat removelist`" or something should work. To move files, ftp, scp, nfs, floppy...? > Also, any other pointers that people may have if you've ever attempted this > before. Thanks No. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
