How to create a custom install CD for a DNS appliance, "Powered by Ubuntu"

[Michael J. Lynch]

Karl Auer wrote:
>>>Take a look at Mondo Rescue (www.mondorescue.org). It's a backup system,
>>>but one of its features is the ability to make a set of ISO images that
>>>can be used to do a bare metal restore.
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>>The problem with that is it is unlikely to work if the target hardware
>>is not identical to the source hardware and/or configuration.
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> He's talking appliance - so he specifies the hardware too.
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> And Mondo can handle quite a lot of on-the-fly changes, it depends on
> how different the target is to the original.
> 

That may be true, but I'm a big believer in using the right tool for the
job.  The right tool for the job is to create a preseeded install media.
That media could be CD, DVD, or network.  I don't recall where the info
is, but Ubuntu has specific howto's for *mass* deployment techniques.

I personally am using a completely hands-off network based mass
deployment method to make 64 boxes/hour.


-- 
Michael J. Lynch

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