a wibble wish list

[Christopher Chan]

Chadley Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 10:43, Christopher Chan wrote:
> 
>>Chadley Wilson wrote:
> 
> 
>>>It still requires loading each system one by one, whether by network or
>>>CD +- 45 mins per system.
>>
>>eh? You can have multiple systems installing via the network.
> 
> Well I certainly appreciate the help, but I think you have missed my
> point, I am pressed for time and deadlines, from CD-Rom the smaller PCs
> (2.0 Gig Celerons 128 MB Ram) take 45 Mins plus to install, if I run
> network installs and there are 3 machines per techie loading, its close
> to 60 machines simultaneously. The speed reduction on a gigabit lan is
> incredible it drops to nearly an hour and a half per system. So
> duplicating the drives is the only solution we have @ 20 mins for 16
> drives.

Is your switch saturated or the Gigabit link that is? Can you add a few 
more NIC cards to the rpm repository box?

> I can prepare close 448 Linux hard drives a day using my two disk
> duplicators. But with the windows drive I can triple that with ease,
> because it only dumps the data not the free space too, a dump takes 3
> mins for a 3gig install.
> 
> So as you can see we are moving huge volumes and can't afford the usual
> conventional methodes for installation we must duplicate, and thats why
> I wanted a more desktop complete package, so that setting up a master
> drive will be quicker. Not necessarily with the latest packages and
> apps! 

So you are saying with a network install your boys and gals still need 
to some more installing of apps that don't come with the distro?
> We spend a enough time getting other funny hardware working as it is.
> Please understand we can spend two day getting a master right we have
> two hours tops