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Old 12-06-2003, 05:36 AM   #1
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Roll out Debian on several clients


Is there a possibility to make a config file with holds info about the packages i want to install.

I have sevral desktops and i do not want to go trough them all with the setup proces, so just boot with a floppy, with RedHat there is kickstart is there such function with debian to.

I did see something about a fir file or so but can not find it anymore.

Thanks for your time
 
Old 12-06-2003, 10:35 AM   #2
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Re: Roll out Debian on several clients

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Is there a possibility to make a config file with holds info about the packages i want to install.

I have sevral desktops and i do not want to go trough them all with the setup proces, so just boot with a floppy, with RedHat there is kickstart is there such function with debian to.

I did see something about a fir file or so but can not find it anymore.

Thanks for your time
I believe you are looking for the partimage program. If you do not want to image the drives and just want to duplicate the packages on each machine then you could dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt to get a list of packages then on the machine to upgrade the packages on dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt to set the selections and dselect update to update dselect's database and then apt-get dselect-upgrade to upgrade the packages installed to the list that was set.
 
Old 12-08-2003, 02:59 PM   #3
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Check this out:
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
 
  


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