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Re: Preparations for installing a Farm



* Paul Sargent <Paul.Sargent@3dlabs.com> [2001.11.08 13:20:21+0000]:
> OK, I'll give it a go. Would that be a entry for the testing or stable part
> of the UK mirror?

stable (i.e. potato)

> > do you purge or delete packages?
> 
> I tend to purge, trying to keep the system as clean as possible. 

good. i thought --set-selections takes care of that. let me research a
little...

> At the moment we've only built the first machine, the others will follow if
> this is a success. All will try to be as similar as possible, but becuase
> there's going to be a time delay in buying bits, I'll bet things will be
> slightly different.

so what? this is linux...
get the same harddrive size for all, or at least make them all be big
enough to hold the main system. then you can image one successful
server, restore the images, and use the remaining space on each space
for a separate partiton like /store.

small differences in configuration should not be a problem...

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