[Nottingham] Better than Windows? was: Response on awareness day

[Andy Davidson]

Graeme Fowler wrote:
> Using PXE boot, a network install over a gigabit LAN and a pared-down
> kickstart file I have an FC4 webserver install, including running mke2fs
> to zap EXT3 partitions onto a pair of mirrored 80GB SATA drives down to
> just over three minutes from power-on. OK, that's using IBM servers so
> the internals are pretty zippy, but still.

*nice*

> CD-ROM installs are so last century, darling ;-)

We replicated a number of boxes at the end of last  year using 'System 
Imager' which integrated into Debian very nicely - last time I checked, 
kickstart was Redhat only.  It is a very good tool, though.

-a