Just a suggestion from my experiences at training schools. Learning Tree (who IMHO are extremely professional) install Linux, Unix, Windows across loads of PCs. These PCS are used for several hundred courses. They ease the installation by having removable hard drives. The techies just pull them out at the end of the course and wack them in another box with the config of the course. I believe that they can do several of these hard drives simultaneously - I'll ask my contact at Learning Tree.

Not a Linux solution but a physical one that may aid you in the future.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Bailey" <baileyj@bournemouth.ac.uk>
To: <gllug@linux.co.uk>
Sent: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:25:34 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: [Gllug] Multiple Installs

> Hi
> 
> I look after several labs of PC at Bournemouth University running Linux,
> currently Redhat v7.1. These labs of PC are used to inform our students that
> there are alternatives to M$ Windows. We give the students root access and
> let them pull dowing network, add users and generally trash the palce :) I
> need an easy way to rebuild labs of identical machines. I have just install
> a lab of 16 identical pc's I used a network boot disk. I noticed install
> over from M$ Windows server is no londer and option so I used the HTTP type
> install.
> 
> Has any one got any ideas or experience of installing large numbers of PC's
> with linux in an automated or semi-automated way.
> 
> many thanks
> 
> James
> 
> James Bailey
> Programming, Linux and Clustering
> School of DEC
> Bournemouth University
> (01202) 59 x5627
> 
> 
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