Re: debian in a lab

1997-04-16 Thread meierrj
Christoph, > ..., I usually install [packages] ... in a directory > /usr/local/packages/ ... > I use a script to move files into the correct directories. > The appeal of such an approach is [ability to] use any packages ... without > [installing] anything locally except a set of well-defined link

Re: debian in a lab

1997-04-13 Thread Craig Sanders
On 9 Apr 1997, Graeme Stewart wrote: > The ideal situation, I think, would be for dselect to have an option > where by it can be told that certain directories are NFS mounted. > It should then do the installation as normal, but not copy files to > these directories (or attempt to delete them upon

Re: debian in a lab

1997-04-10 Thread Christoph Best
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kay Nettle) wrote: > 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. We have been r

Re: debian in a lab

1997-04-09 Thread Graeme Stewart
Hi Kay, We currently have 5 Debian clients running with /usr, /home and bits of /var (shared tfm and pk font files). The system runs really well over our not too busy 10Mbps ethernet. This may be because we have a good server, PPro 200MHz with 64MB and a fast-wide SCSI disk, so your milage might v

Re: debian in a lab

1997-04-09 Thread Jason Killen
time and it was slow I could run ls and go get a coke. The best way to keep up with what is in /usr would probally be nis. Sorry for the rambling. In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Hi, > > We're planning on installing debian in a lab of about 50 machines >and

debian in a lab

1997-04-09 Thread Kay Nettle
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 coup