The high quality replies I received (especially from
Jens B. Jorgensen) solved my problem.
(see http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-0001/msg02027.html)
It also gave me an idea:
Wouldn't it be great if there was ONE Linux boot-floppy
that would mount (SMB or NFS?) a complete files
hi onno
i'd try something like...
- use a bootable cdrom ( rescue disk )...
- boot linux with network capability
( use linuxcare' bootable cdrom - business card size
- if not use (slackware) root/boot floppy image
- or use flash IDE disk to boot each w/s
- than
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 11:43:17AM +0100, Onno Ebbinge wrote:
> I'm a sysadmin and have two Debian GNU/Linux potato servers and 50
> windows 95 workstations under my care.
>
> My problem is with the 50 workstations:
>
> (the 50 workstations have the same hardware)
>
> I want to install ONE wor
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
[excellent post snipped]
A really simple way to do this is to use multicast ghost.
Make a boot floppy with a packet driver to suit the NIC
Use it or 50 copies of it to boot the 50 workstations and run ghost
Run dhcp somewhere.
Run ghostsrv somewher
I don't suppose your workstations have NICs with PXE support do they? If so you
could
use bpbatch (www.bpbatch.com) to boot them over the network. bpbatch supports a
small
scripting language which will allow you to partition the disks and load whole
linux
images into the disks (just what you wan
I'm a sysadmin and have two Debian GNU/Linux potato servers and 50
windows 95 workstations under my care.
My problem is with the 50 workstations:
(the 50 workstations have the same hardware)
I want to install ONE workstation and then mirror the hard disk to
all other workstations.
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