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List:       suse-linux-uk-schools
Subject:    deployment on multiple machines
From:       Phil Driscoll <phil () dialsolutions ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-07-24 9:11:09
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Progress on getting a good system running on the 32Mb machines we've been 
given is going well. At some point over the summer holidays, we are going to 
need to install a working system on 123 machines.

The machines all have 'blank' hard drives, a floppy drive and onboard realtek 
ethernet NIC. I cannot guarantee that all the hard drives are identical, 
although they are all about 3Gb.

The final setup on the machines will be basically Suse 7.2 with some tweaks - 
I guess a lightweight kernel and, it currently looks like a hacked version of 
icewm with all 'toys' removed.

All machines will be identical apart from IP address (fixed) and hostname.

It would be great to have a boot floppy which would bootstrap an installation 
over the network. Does anyone have any experience in this area? Any advice on 
suitable technologies gratefully received.

Cheers
-- 
Phil Driscoll

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