On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 04:54, Paul M Foster wrote: > The process of installing Debian is agonizingly show the way I do it. I > use dselect and hand pick every package. That's fine for a single > machine. But I need a way to do that on one machine, and then propagate > that setup quickly to other machines on the network (consider them fresh > installs). I don't have a CD burner, so skip that. I considered rsync, > but I don't know if it would work for this. If the machines are similar enough, just do one 'master' machine, mount everything read-only (best in single-user mode), make a tar file of the entire system (leaving out proc, dev/pts and other mounted dirs, of course), and put that on the network. Then boot every machine with some linux boot medium with network access, partition and untar the pre-installed system. lilo, edit the few files that need editing (probably hostname, fstab, X86Config, not much more) and you're done. cheers -- vbi -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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