multiple pc install

[Lee Braiden]

On Sunday 06 November 2005 18:31, ShadowZ-invincible-Soul wrote:
> i recently was hired as system administrator for a
> university where they are in the process of switching
> from fedora core 3 to ubuntu......the problem is i
> need to install ubuntu on 300+ computers.....is there
> anyway to do an automated install or network install
> from the main server here on campus? i really don't
> want to manually install ubuntu on each
> pc......individually...
> thanks in advance

Yes, there are a number of ways to do unattended network installs, even if the 
distro doesn't support it.  Debian does though, in the shape of FAI.  I 
haven't yet used it myself, but it seems to be very complete :)

   http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/

In particular, have a read at the FAI guide on that site:

   http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide.html/

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Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com