On Tuesday 05 March 2002 09.36, you wrote: > Can anyone tell me whether (and possibly how) the following can be achieved > using kickstart: > > Have one master system with all packages and patches installed. > > Boot a new client with empty disks diskless with a DHCP boot floppy > first, then klone the master system and apply necessary post-install > changes like IP addresses, ssh hostkeys and other things that have > to be individual for each host. (actually these individual changes > have to be provided in the diskless setup already). I have been using a tool named bpbatch for similar setup on w2k. Take a look at www.bpbatch.com. On linux it's much simpler to use kickstart and to performe some post-installation. Regards Anders Damm
