Upgrading from Hoary to Dapper for more than 300 computers.

[Florian Diesch]

"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

Upgrading Hoary to Dapper is not officially supported and cjhnaces are
that it will not work. You'd better update to breezy first and than to
dapper. Installing Dapper from scratch may be faster than.


> 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?

I would consider using FAI:

Package: fai
Description: Fully Automatic Installation
 FAI is a non-interactive system to install a Debian GNU/Linux operating
 system unattended on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin
 PCs, turn on the power, and after a few minutes, Linux is installed,
 configured, and running on the whole cluster, without any interaction
 necessary.  Homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai



   Florian
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