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Sorry, I should have noted. Yes, they are all the same hardware. I
assume that we have valid licenses installed when the poor tech
initially set them all up, one by one by one.<br>
I will have to see if it is one license for 900 (probably 1000)
machines or???<br>
Thanks, <br>
Claudia<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/22/2014 2:13 AM, Ronald Cotoni
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<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>
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:17 PM, davidfine <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:d@vidfine.com"
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> you can ... use
something like PXE to install automatically over the
network. Here's some info on that: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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Licenses will be a problem, you'd have to run some sort of
sysprep script to handle it <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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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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