[ale] subverting public school software

[James Taylor]

AutoYaST. It comes with SLES.  I haven't looked into running on SuSE
Pro.
-jt
 
 



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>>>dhurst at kennesaw.edu 07/20/04 10:37 am >>> 
Yes SuSE does have an autoinstaller but I can't remember the name. 
Alice? 
Anyway it is there.  Call Novell and tell them your thoughts.  Let them
help 
you out!! 
Dow 
 
 
James P. Kinney III wrote: 
>Alers, 
> 
>In Dekalb county a new middle school is about to open, Tucker Middle 
>School. I live near it (it's HUGE!) and know many parents with children

>who will be attending next fall. As such, I received a letter today
from 
>the president of the PTA (addressed to my business) asking if I would
be 
>interested in donating cash or other valuable goods to the school for 
>its start up. 
> 
>Of course loading up a flock of new computers with Linux was the first 
>thing to cross my mind! 
> 
>Then reality smacked me and I realized that sliding that through the 
>Dekalb county gestapo, I mean, IT services, would be nearly impossible.

> 
>So I'll settle (reluctantly) on "The Open CD". 
> 
>On the slim chance I can sneak Linux in the door, I see 2 realistic 
>distro candidates, RedHat / Fedora and Novell-Suse. Sadly, I don't see 
>Debian (too $*^%$^ complicated to install for too many newbies - no 
>flames please. Even Ian has said the installation is ugly), Gentoo
(Hmm. 
>150 machines in 1 week. Nope), Slackware (tempting but critical mass
for 
>desktop is not ready yet), Mandrake (too ~french~ OK, reality is too 
>many install issues on the latest release to handle by myself), Knoppix

>(it's still Debian under the hood. Should be used as give-aways for the

>kids) are all out for various reasons. 
> 
>I can do a custom RedHat/Fedora kickstart CD pretty quickly. Does Suse 
>have a bulk installer like kickstart? 
> 
> 
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