[Gllug] Multiple Installs

[David Irvine]

James Bailey wrote:

>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
>
>
Mandrake has a linux replication option, which  gives you a floppy, you 
just stick it in,  boot it up and  it installs. Come back  after a cup 
of tea and its sorted.

D




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