Re: Replicating Linux?

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Does anyone know of a way to install Linux on many machines?  I have about 50
> Compaq Presarios that I need to bring online,  but certainly don't want to go
> through the install and config procedure on every one?  I had an e-mail from
> someone at SUN who had come up with a way to do this by doing a "hard drive
> copy",  but I seem to have misplaced it.  Does SUN use Linux??

I've copied the Linux system quite a few times.
I was actually planning on talking about this a little bit
at this Sunday meeting.

What method would you like to use to load the disks?

Do want to physically connect the disks one at a time 
to a master PC, do the copy, and move the disk back to
the origional PC?

Or, if these PCs have tape drives, you can create a tape image
and restore the tape on each PC with a Linux boot floppy.

Or, you can install the image over a network with a boot floppy.

Let me know which method you were planning on using, and I can
give you some more specific commands/tips.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
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