<div dir="ltr">That is what I was going to suggest if all of them are the SAME. It is trivial to dd a hdd to something and then kickstart/dd back to a bunch of other machines. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:17 PM, davidfine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d@vidfine.com" target="_blank">d@vidfine.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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you can ... use something like PXE to install automatically over the
network. Here's some info on that:
<a href="http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/serva" target="_blank">http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/serva</a><br>
you could... boot linux from a usb hard drive and use the dd tool
your image to the internal hard drive. It could be done by a boot
script. <br>
<br>
Licenses will be a problem, you'd have to run some sort of sysprep
script to handle it
<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825209.aspx" target="_blank">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825209.aspx</a><br>
If you had a full windows domain stack, you'd run Windows Deployment
Services (WDS). I'm really glad I don't have to work with that
anymore.<br>
This is one of those things that's easier in Linux. <br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
--D</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 4/21/14, 12:58 PM, Ronald Cotoni
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<p dir="ltr">I think clonezilla might do what you want. But i
could be mistaken. Are they all exactly the same hardware? </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 21, 2014 4:10 AM, "girlgeek" <<a href="mailto:girlgeek@wt.net" target="_blank">girlgeek@wt.net</a>>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi All, <br>
I have 900 netbooks to set up with Windows 8. Well
actually, they already have Windows 8 installed. I have 900
netbooks to make usable since they are Windows 8 and are
being given to people, most of whom have never touched a
computer before. <br>
<br>
I have a vague memory that a company desktop technician did
some manner of cloning so that all company laptops were
identical. I also had the feeling that this is what the
techs at bigbox computer stores do when setting up a newly
purchased computer with all the official bloat ware.<br>
<br>
I would like to format these 900 machines and perform this
manner of cloning setup. Is this something that someone at
NB has done and can give me some tips on?<br>
<br>
TYIA, <br>
Claudia </div>
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