RE: Installing five identical systems...

[Jack Wathey <wathey salk edu>]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Greg Lindahl wrote:

> > If you create a minimal system which allows you to boot from a diskette
> > and connect to a network, you can perform this type of disk duplication
> > over your LAN (dd if=/dev/sda | rsh somehost 'dd of=/dev/sda').
> 
> This is impossible on an alpha, because the binaries are too big. Intead I
> wrote a program which compiles down to just 30 kbytes which configs the
> interface and does the copy and uncompress.
> 
> -- g

Greg,

Is there any way I can get a copy of your program that does this?  I have
a cluster of alphas (LX machines on fast Ethernet), and I would really
like to try your technique for upgrading their OS.  I suspect that other
people on the list with alpha clusters could benefit from it, too.

Jack