Re: debian installation in a bigger network
Dirk Luetjens (dirk@plus) wrote on 25 October 1996 13:10:
>We plan to install the debian distribution in the whole network. I was
>looking for a master installation script to run the installation
>process automatically from a nfs mounted directory or via ftp. Are
>there any solutions for that.
>
>We want to keep the computers also all together at the same
>installation level with rdist. But what about the specific directories
>/etc? Whe where thinking of installing one master debian system and to
>distribute new installed software over night to the other systems, so
>that on the other day all systems are again on the same level. As I
>said, installing new software can also install files in /ets and
>distributing /etc to the slave systems isn't a good idea.
I have the same problem, and there's NO solution to it UNFORTUNATELY.
You can use cfengine to keep configurations in synch, but not for
packages. In my case, I have about 6 machines in a cluster, but they
do NOT have the same packages installed. The only solution is to use
dpkg in each and every one of them :-( :-(
Carlos
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