Identical systems

[Dale Sykora]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:27, Marc M wrote:
> 
>>If you only have a handful of machines with exactly identical
>>hardware, you could probably swap out drives if you would prefer,
>>especially if you have removable drive bays.  But really for anything
>>more than about two or three installs, I strongly recommend a
>>kickstart based install method. 
> 
> 
> But then you have to do updates to each new copy and add all of
> your own setup.  With an image or file based copy you get a
> copy will all changes after the install intact.  The ultimate
> method is to build your own rpm repository, add all of your
> own programs and config changes packaged as rpms.  Then you
> can do a kickstart install against that and get a current
> version and update any older installations against it with
> yum, apt-get, or up2date.
> 
HP does something similar in house.  They have a kick-start-o-matic 
style web page where you design your system (name, ip, packages, etc) 
and then it creates a custom iso that you can burn to cd and use to boot 
and network install your new system.