Hey Johnny - you idiot how could you overlook NAIS??? http://nais.sourceforge.net/ How come after googling at work most of the day and coming up with nothing -and then, only after asking the group do you hit upon the google phrase that produces fruit? "installing linux on many computers" .. duh... sorry everyone.... found some info to get me going in the right direction.... :) ----- Original Message ----- From: johnnyfulcrum at mn.rr.com Date: Thursday, October 23, 2003 7:40 pm Subject: [TCLUG] best way to install linux on 50 + old desktops > > I have 50 + pentium I desktops that are blank (16mb Ram and up) - > I'd like to load linux on them before I ship them off for a > volunteer program I participate in. > > I was thinking of a "net" or NFS install from my lan of deb ... > I'd like to be able to just stick in a floppy, let it boot and > start the install with pre-defined software choices and let linux > best guess the partitioning and move to the next computer - I'd > like to not have to plug in keyboard and mice and monitor, (?). > > thoughts on the best way to accomplish this? Don't want to start > a flame(r) war on distoros either... but are there better suited > distros for what I want to do ? > > thanks > johnnyf > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list