Re: Tayloring Debian Installs
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Thomas Lamy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> some days ago I had the task of setting up 6 debian servers for our web
> server farm. It was rather boring to do the base install, alter the apt.conf
> and sources.list (we run a combo of testing/stable), de-select unwanted
> default packages (you know the score...).
>
> I'd like to streamline that task, as there are another 10 servers next month
> that need the same procedure.
>
> In SuSE, it was an easy task, as you could save the state of installed
> packages on a running machine, and inject that at the base install stage, so
> there were only custom packes (and configuration) left.
>
I don't know how well this may meet your requirements, but I've found that
jablicator does a good job of this for Debian.. It creates a package that
has all the currently installed packages as dependacies, so when you
install it on a new machine, it loads on all the other packages too.
> I thought it would be the easiest way to use tasksel for that, but I didn't
> find a way to import external data (even hand-made) to define a new "task".
>
> Another thought was to use some netinstall iso, and tweak it (alter the
> basedebs.tar, sources.list) to my needs.
>
> HD cloning is not really an option, as most times the source HDD won't match
> the new ones, and I'd also like to use this procedure to convert the rest of
> the SuSE machines here.
>
> So, what are you using?
>
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
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