RE: Installing five identical systems...

[nm <nmanisca vt edu>]

At 10:19 AM 12/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>	I'd love something like this also. I have to build
>	RH systems on a regular basis and I'd love to be able
>	to use a consistant copy with all the updates applied.
>	Windows folks have something like this with things like
>	Norton Ghost.
>
>	I have started looking into the Kickstart portion
>	of RH but only briefly so far. (too busy building
>	systems!)
>
>								mike
>
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I dont know about you guys, but back when I did SA work with
Linux based systems, I considered this a pretty standard task.
I would keep a big tarball of a post-patch, post-update
installation (with all the goodies and utils that I wanted,
already in the tarball).

I would have two copies.  One in a desktop configuration and
one in a stripped down file server configuration.

Gotta build a new rubber stamped box?  Just stick the disk in 
an already set up machine, and make a parititon, make it bootable
from bios, add a boot sector, newfs, untar, configure, etc...

Nick Maniscalco