Special boot disks...
Hi,
I'm working as a technician/system/network admin in a french college.
We use Debian as our Linux distributions, with a dual PPro machine as
file/printing/mail server and router.
My problem is that the former installation of Debian on our 35 PCs was
done by someone who was not very used to Un*x, and he installed Debian
in a quite bad way:(.
Last week, there won't be any students working here (holidays... but not
for me yet !), and we have decided to restart a complete installation of
Debian on our machines and servers. As you can imagine, one week is not
enough to create a good server configuration (I expect to last one or
two days with it) and a good client configuration (one day to make it
real clean), and then hardcopy the client disk onto the 34 others
clients with dd...
What I'm looking for is a disk set with which I could start Linux
directly from a diskette, create my partitions on the hard disk,
activate the network and download my sample configuration via NFS (I
hope you can figure out why the Linux partition cannot be used before:
conflicts with libs and utilities). I would then have only to change the
settings for the network configuration of the client PC so-installed.
As I'm in a hurry (and have a lot of work to finish this week), I really
don't have the time to create my own boot/root disks for it (given that
I had not needed these before and by the way don't know how it
works:-((().
If someone has already done such a thing, it would be a great help for
me...
Note: I had a look to the BootDisk-HOWTO, created a boot disk that fit
our configurations and waits for a ramdisk. In fact what I need is the
correct ramdisk, and a little bit of explaination about the way it
works.
Thanks a lot,
Seb.
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Sebastien Phelep - Sebastien.Phelep@univ-ubs.fr
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