Hi all, I am sitting here at work reinstalling 30 servers before the first official class of GFS100 next week. I decided to use VA's system-imager (http://systemimager.org) and let me tell you it's fantastic. I have 3 images: memexp-node, gfs-node, and mgmt-workstation. Each machines MAC is plugged into /etc/dhcpd.conf on the system-imager server, and that corresonds to a dynamically assinged static IP, which corresponds to a hostname (obviously). I drop a cd in each machine, reboot and wait a minute or two and blamo. It's done. each machine is freshly installed. Granted I do them one at a time with a monitor on the box so I can make sure all goes well. But eventually I'll automate the whole process. If you maintain serveral machines with similar configurations systemimager is the way to go. -- Ben Lutgens Sistina Software Inc. MIS Geek / Gentoo Developer http://dolly-llama.org | http://www.gentoo.org/ | http://sistina.com/ Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010603/33ed80fd/attachment.pgp