[Gllug] Linux Roadshow

[William Palfreman]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Richard Cottrill wrote:

> That said; do any of the major distributions have a mode/distro where you
> get a corporate desktop, rather than a 'workstation'? I mean the sort of
> thing that doesn't have a programmer's editor, or perhaps even a compiler
> (God forbid). The sort of distro where you can script it to install 1000
> times, drop each of those thousand boxes on a different functionary's desks
> and have each of them at work in 10 minutes. By the time you're done
> everyone should be able to work, and save to the file server, and NOTHING
> else.

I don't know the debian way to do this, but with Redhat you can use a
kickstart script to do literally everything you need.  Set yourself up
an anon-ftp server on your LAN, containing the distro and extra files -
Star Office, for example), build a box with roughly what you need, use
mkkickstart to produce a kickstart template, which you then need to
edit to get right - use the final post-install section for copying
over config files so they are exactly what you want, or removing
unwanted hangers-on like sendmail, and you are away.  Copy the
script onto your boot floppy and you can produce any desktop with
negligible effort.

Bill.

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