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Re: Call for seconds: Policy modifications



Previously Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>When you are installing Debian on 200 basicly identical machines, why
>not install it on one box, then boot the others with a floppy, and
>image the hard drive over an nfs mount?  I've heard of a school that
>maintains a room full of Windows PC's like that.  When one gets
>screwed up, they boot it to Linux and re-image the Windows drive from
>a `dd' backup.

You can't really do that for Windows in a network-environment, since it
creates machines with identical Security ID's. You can for Linux
however, and we do that on a large scale (120 machines now). I still
have to package that, but it's not very high on the todo-list.

Wichert.

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