Best Way to Install Dual-Booting Clients
Hello,
Does anyone have any advice on how best to install Windows 7 and a GNU/Linux distribution over a network? Currently, we have a very easy Windows 7 network installation (provided by Windows Deployment Services), which we use for installation of approximately 1000 machines. It'd be great to hear how you are installing GNU/Linux alongside Windows, in particular the software you use and how you customize the bootloader. Many thanks for any advice. |
Red-Hat based systems have a file called kickstart that passes any configuration information you want to the installation routine. Assuming you already have a working tftp boot server it should just be a matter of making a kickstart file and having everything in the proper place in the tftp server. Can't really comment on other methods as I haven't used them.
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Many thanks travisdh1.
Yes, a full installation with kickstart does seem to be the 'correct' way to do it. I was wondering if anyone had successfully cloned a working GNU/Linux partition, but after installing Windows. This would be excellent (much faster and much easier to configure the installation). |
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