[ale] a quick installer

[Keith Hopkins]

Stephen Turner 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
>  
>
Quick?  to run? or to setup?  I haven't seen any "good" solution that 
didn't require some "you have to know what  you're doing" knowledge first.

Mondo Rescue http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/  (Disaster recovery type 
backups)

SystemImager http://www.systemimager.org/ (System cloning + lots more)

System Installer http://systeminstaller.sourceforge.net/ (subset of 
SystemImager for remote installs)

We send SystemImager images to our customers as a kind of "quick 
install" or "recovery CD" for our blade servers (which are usually 
multiple installations of the same sw set).

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
 Keith


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