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[Fraser Campbell]

On Thursday 16 December 2004 07:34, Colin McGregor wrote:

> identical, I could have found myself in a situation where I had 26
> machines, all from different vendors with 26 different monitors which would
> have made making an auto install script painfully hard to write)...

This is no longer true of Debian.  I recently upgraded some HA webservers 
using sarge.  I first tested my installs on a new whitebox (single IDE disk), 
I then performed the install on one of the old servers (an old IBM server 
with ipc hardware raid),  finally the install was applied to a new IBM 1U 
server with software RAID.

In every case the identical fully automated install CD was used, the one part 
that did differ was the final install on the 1U servers since software RAID 
was used (that could have been accounted for in the autoinstall as well of 
course) .  In none of the install was there ever manual specification of 
hardware.

I agree on the Knoppix choice though, with such a short time frame to work 
with I think I'd have gone for a CD based distro as well.

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Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>                 http://www.wehave.net/
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada                               Debian GNU/Linux
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