Upgrading from Hoary to Dapper for more than 300 computers.

[Olafur Arason]

See section 3 in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOnCluster

Olafur Arason

On 5/18/06, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm going to upgrade Hoary for more than 300 computers to Dapper daily
> build in our university. I'm thinking about dist-upgrade through apt-proxy
> to save time, the internet bandwidth is 10 MB/s which I think is much faster
> than CD install, but I doubt that it would not be safe. Should I fresh
> install and ghost the hard drive image to distribute to those computers or
> use the bandwidth instead?
>
> The dapper daily build will be going to be synchronized to the apt-proxy
> server from time to time until it's final.
>
> I'm thinking about using fullblast Zeroconf and Avahi  for Gaim IM and
> file transfer for those computers and later will be used for another 1000
> computers. Is DHCP still needed?
>
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