Upgrading from Hoary to Dapper for more than 300 computers.

[MJang]

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 01:37 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
> "Joel Bryan Juliano" <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm going to upgrade Hoary for more than 300 computers to Dapper daily
> > build ir
> 
> > 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:

One more option - I thought Red Hat's kickstart was ported to Ubuntu
courtesy of Perens' work on Progeny. system-config-kickstart seems
available from one of the repos. run 

sudo apt-cache show system-config-kickstart

for more info. I haven't personally tried it on Ubuntu, so ymmv.

Thanks,
Mike