On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 04:33:09PM -0000, Hubert Tonneau wrote: > I am the manager of the computing department in a > french company. We are currently running most servers > under OS/2 witch had been chosen in 1992 and are > now planning to move to Linux. > > I am very pleased with the Debian dpkg command line > utility that enables to write trivial scripts for > upgrading a set of machines, and the consistency > of the Debian distibution. > > On the other hand, though very easy to use, the > installation of the base system is not convienient > for a large set of computers since it still lacks > the ability to add an ascii file on the rescue > disk that would provide all the necessery > informations to the installation script. > (I think this is called kickstart on Red Hat 5) > > Do you plan to provide such a feature, or is there > a trick to get around it ? There is a mechanism to tell dselect which packages are preselected. This could not only be used to provide a list of possible preselected types (network server, workstation, xterminal etc.) but also to read in such a list. I suppose you'll do the following: a) Install one machine with all the packages you like b) Get the selection with dpkg --get-selections > my.selection c) Install the next machine Quit dselect after you specified the access method d) Add the selection from the other machine with cat my.selection | dpkg --set-selections e) Run dselect to install the files. Of if you need batch mode mount /pub/debian under /mnt and then cd /mnt dpkg -iGROEB hamm/hamm hamm/contrib hamm/non-free Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Linux - the choice of a GNU generation joey@linux.de /
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