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Subject:    Re: [ntp:hackers] UDel/UPenn time subnet
From:       "David L. Mills" <mills () udel ! edu>
Date:       2004-03-10 1:47:00
Message-ID: 404E7394.6D2A9F8C () udel ! edu
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P-H,

I'll look into that. We have a flock of Linux machines in our Matlab
lab, so I asked the sysadmin how they built them from scratch. He said
the staff cloned a master disk the hard way: mounting the master and
clone on one system, partitining the clone and dump-pipe-restore. Easier
than installing from scratch, I suppose, but still a violation of the
Principle of Least Astonishment.

I expect having done this that more folks than UDel and UPenn will want
to buy into the scheme, which is one reason I'm concerned and don't want
to make more work than necessary.

Dave

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> In message <404E1413.43EE8B81@udel.edu>, "David L. Mills" writes:
> 
> >The CD might contain a director of install scripts that launch and guide
> >whatever needs specific to that system. There may be some operator
> >interaction, like specifying the IP address/mask, etc., and the NTP
> >configuration file might have to be downloaded by the operator. The
> >intent is to not require the installer to stumble through the usual
> >install scripts. Is this feasible?
> 
> The answer to that is yes, it can be done, but it is usually faster
> to use the scripted mode of the default "sysinstall" program.
> 
> Another option is "FreeSBIE" which I just saw this weekend, it's a
> runnable FreeBSD on a CD.  (www.freesbie.org)
> 
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
> FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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