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
The plan is to set up a small
digital training studio, with about 4 or 5 participants
at a time. I want to dual boot the laptops with Ubuntu
and install software like inkscape, librecad, freecad,
sheetcam, blender, and others, plus a number of
plugins/extensions, and obviously I don't want to have
to do it 5 times. Also, it will probaly change over time
and it would be good to keep them all the same.
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At the moment I have a basic
owncloud set up where all job files are shared to all
computers. I am sure there are better ways of doing this
but it works for me. Not sure about 'locking them down'.
Why would it be necessary?Â
I'm not good at code, I could probaly manage a simple
scrip, but would prefer a nice gui!
Hope that gives a better picture.
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Thanks
