re: unattended install
Well, when you were talking about same systems, assuming same HW
and mainly same HD... then the kind of unattended install can be
to put one HD after another from other machines into your computer
and while booted into rc.S (with read-only disk) you just issue
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=512; sync
When you have networking configured with DHCP or BOOTP, what would
be reasonable... you are done ... when you don't you would need
anyway to change the scripts some...
I am friend of simple solutions... we had a floppy that mounted
root fs over NFS and then run the install script which partitioned
dd if=/install/mbr of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
Formated paritions, made swap, copied files...
This might be an idea how to make things easy for
unattended install... and this even does not require
same HW. When you get the work and collect ethernet
addresses and assign them IPs and place it all in
segments, you might as well record HW configurations
and then assign domain names like: hp-1, dell_1-02, dell_2-12
And copy HW dependend files from particular directories
(/install/hp/, install/dell_1/...)
The advantage of this is that when you go through this work
that is anyway the minimal amount of work you need to do,
you will have install mechanism that will let you reinstall
any given machine anytime. What is usually the main issue
why to come with unattended install ... and of course you do
all the work for each HW config only ones.
Jirka
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