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Re: [Sheflug] Installing loads of Dbians



José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

Hi all,
    We expect to be installing loads of debian boxen next week. Since
they are all to be networked and are not suppossed to do something
particularly clever (well, apart from networky stuff), I had thought
about installing a woody system, with a customised 2.4 kernel
(they will be used for network testing, and we might end up using UML
in the long run, but that's not my problem. Yet :D).

    I am aware of FAI. If I undertand it correctly, we get the network
wired up, get a machine to act as a server, have a local package
mirror, run tftp, so the "clients" get a kernel and a root FS by NFS,
so that the automated installation can be done.

    The clients are booted and the ethernet addresses are "sniffed"
Maybe I'm missing something here, but if the servers will be similarly spec'd, can't you just install a single machine, put the drive into another machine and then:

cp /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1

and clone the drives? If you're going to use DHCP (your ethernet sniffing) then what else would you need to configure separately that you wouldn't with any other method? I can't think of 'owt of the top of my head.

Regards,

Jonathan

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