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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq