Config a laptop network

[Alan Jackson]

Here's a sys-admin question for you experts.

A fellow at work has 10 Linux laptops he uses for portable training classes
for Geophysical software. Right now he and a clerk are configuring and
loading each one manually, one at a time. What would be the recommended
simple, low-cost solution to both network them and then to image them
down the wire? We'd like them all to be identical.

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