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On 26/02/18 15:16, mr meowski wrote: > On 26/02/18 09:06, aaron moore wrote: >> Hi Lug >> Well, I am now the proud owner of 5 reconditioned Dell lap tops and >> intend to dual boot them with Ubuntu. Am I right in thinking that if I >> work up a persistent usb start up thumb drive and load it with all my >> favourite softwares i will then be able to install Ubuntu plus >> favourites in one go? Any advice on this gratefully received. >> Kind rgards > Cool, what did you get in the end? > > What exactly are you trying to accomplish here though - an automated > installation (you want kickstart for that), a pre-built customised image > with an answer file (you want pre-seed for that) or 100% identical > software+configs dumped onto every machine (you want to clone a small > finished image to each machine for that, and then adjust the partitions > to fit afterwards)? > > Or as you're setting up a mini lab/classroom sort of scenario do you > want to get the laptops all setup perfectly as "class laptops #1 through > #5" and then lock 'em down so you can restore them to exactly the same > state after every session? (you'll want a client/server architecture for > that, probably with a boot server and NFS mounts). There are equivalents > to the Windows "deepfreeze" management software to lock down and manage > Linux systems so naughty little users can't muck anything up too much. > > The one thing I'm reasonably sure of is that your Dells have come with > OEM Windows licenses/software on them that you understandably don't want > to wipe and lose but you'd prefer them to run Ubuntu. Obviously you > don't fancy doing the same near-identical manual install on all 5 of > them one after the other either, hence automation time. > > Explain exactly what your end goal is and everything will be much clearer... > > Cheers +1
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