[ale] a quick installer

James Sumners james at sumners.ath.cx
Thu Mar 20 08:19:30 EST 2003


http://www.partimage.org/

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 05:14:19 -0800 (PST)
Stephen Turner <artic_knight at yahoo.com> wrote:

> hey i was curious about what kinds of quick installers are out there? 
> methods for imaging many computers easily and quickly, something that i
> could start and walk away from? i know redhat has something but i hear its
> bloated and hard to work with sometimes, could a script be set up to do
> this? using dd or something? and what if i just tarred up a system and
> then untarred it to another? i would have to reinstall grub on the new
> system but aside from that wouldnt it work? or is the kernel dependent on
> being in a specific spot on the HD or Partition? i ask because i want to
> make reconstruction cd's :) ohh and one other question, what if it takes
> multiple cds to store the os? how would that be set up? ive dont a little
> browsing online but was curious what the gurus do :) figured some of you
> did some script fu. thanks for any help
> 
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