Config a laptop network

[David A. Bandel]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:18:27 -0600
Alan Jackson <ajackson at oplnk.net> wrote:

> 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.

There is a tool specifically designed to do exactly this.  The tool is
called systemimager.  It requires a systemimager server, a "golden
client", then uses rsync to make all the rest of the systems identical
(except for, obviously, the IP address).

http://www.systemimager.org/

And remember, freshmeat is your friend.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
Focus on the dream, not the competition.
		Nemesis Racing Team motto
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