Doing a Linux MASS install.

[Colin McGregor]

Hi all,

I stick my nose in a LOT of things, including GTALUG,
UU and the Toronto Free-Net.

This past week the Toronto Free-Net got a donation of
approx. 2,000 computers, about 90% of which are Dell
Optiplex GX1 machines (Pentium II, 400 MHz) boxes.
This of course means a challenge, the machines need to
be made function, get a Linux (or other free OS)
install and get pushed out the door to people who
could use these machines :-) . Oh, and the machines
need to be gone from where they are now by September
1, 2006 (no time pressure :-) ).

So, I gather that Ubuntu has a tool for doing mass
copy of a tailored distro. onto multiple hard drives,
has anyone tried the tool? Are these tools available
in other Linux distros (i.e.: ones that are friendlier
to KDE than Ubuntu :-) )? How well does this work when
the hard drives differ in size? Would there be anyone
interested in doing a MASS (like over 1,000 machines)
Linux install some weekend in August for the Toronto
Free-Net?

Colin McGregor

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