On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 20:27, Bill Anderson wrote: > > snip > > As an instructor who needs to insall on the sites I go to, I look at it > > this way: > > The most common use of personal should be optimized for the single disc > > install. It decreases the number of discs, and speeds my install. This > > is not an insignificant difference. Unfortunately, not all sites I've > > gone to have a 100MB network, instead running 10MB through a hub -- an > > install of half a dozen or more desktops over that network is s s s s s > > s l l l l l l o o o o o o o o o ow. > > > > If I can drop a single disc in, get them all started, and move on to > > something else, it cuts down my prep time dramtically. > > > > That's why for Linux Fundamentals, and general admin/shell scripting > > classes I've found Debian a better platform. One disc has made a major > > difference in time spent there. > > > > I'm not advocating (here) what should constitute a given "install > > package", just that the "minimum" and/or the "personal desktop" should > > not require all the discs, just the first one. Not advocating package > > change, just disc sequencing. ;) > > > > Bill - It sounds like this might be a great application for you to > build your own installation cds with kickstart built in. Burn a dozen > and you can simply walk into a lab, insert the cd, reboot and walk > away. You could then do all of them simultaneously and hava working lab > in about 15 minutes. > > It is really not that difficult and the time spent getting it right > would pay for it on the first install. I have some links somewhere. If > you like I can try to dig them up. With your skills you should be able > to knock out a working version in half a day or so. The kickstart list > is good for working on stuff like this as well.
the above is pretty close to what i did some time back when i was teaching for a major client in texas. they had a classroom i would get access to about an hour before class started on the first day. all seats already had a set of red hat CDs, so what i brought was a kickstart floppy with an appropriate ks.cfg file. one at a time, i'd start a kickstart install at each seat, removing the floppy after it had done its job (about a minute or so), and move on to the next seat. once they were all installing, i'd go for coffee, come back in a while to swap CDs. yes, i know i could have burned custom CDs with the ks.cfg file right on the CD, but it didn't seem worth it. if i ever wanted to make changes, it was way easier to just make a new floppy than a whole new set of CDs. rday p.s. if you're feeling ambitious, you can have a laptop with the CD ISOs on it, and use that as a network kickstart server, make things go even faster. i did that a couple times as well. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
