Copying installation to other machines

[Chris H]

I'm soon going to be reconditioning/salvaging 16 old PII 400Mhz pcs to pass on to a charity. A wonderful opportunity to pre-load them with a proper OS. :P

Since they're all identical it makes sense to use a distro that can produce cloned install cds.

So I need a distro that will work well on PII400, probably 128Mb or less memory and can be 'copied'. Need to provide up to date openoffice.org, web and email software as a minimum, together with networking capabilities.

My own preference would be Mdk 8.2 as I'm sure there's summat on there that allows 'kickstarting?' Or was that RH?

Any advice gratefully received.

[XavierSAO]

MDK offers an option to write install options to a floppy at the end of the install, which should automate the rest of the machines installs. 8.2 didn't have OpenOffice (Star 5.2), so you'll need 9 or better for that.

You may want to go into each one, and add a bookmark back to here for the newbies and windrones!

[Chris H]

MDK offers an option to write install options to a floppy at the end of the install, which should automate the rest of the machines installs. 8.2 didn't have OpenOffice (Star 5.2), so you'll need 9 or better for that.

You may want to go into each one, and add a bookmark back to here for the newbies and windrones!

Hehe, good idea.

OpenOffice 1.1 works a treat on mdk 8.2. And if they're networked I can perhaps set one machine up to serve it to the rest.

[CopperTop]

A wonderful opportunity to pre-load them with a proper OS. :P

That's one way to speread the word of Linux!

[sarumont]

That's a great idea. Killing two birds with one stone: Providing computers to charity and weening a few more people away from the Beast.