[Noisebridge-discuss] Cloning 900 netbooks?

[girlgeek]

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.
I will have to see if it is one license for 900 (probably 1000) machines 
or???
Thanks,
Claudia

On 4/22/2014 2:13 AM, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:17 PM, davidfine <d at vidfine.com 
> <mailto:d at vidfine.com>> wrote:
>
>     you can ... use something like PXE to install automatically over
>     the network. Here's some info on that:
>     http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/serva
>     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.
>
>     Licenses will be a problem, you'd have to run some sort of sysprep
>     script to handle it
>     http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825209.aspx
>     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.
>     This is one of those things that's easier in Linux.
>     --D
>
>
>
>     On 4/21/14, 12:58 PM, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
>>
>>     I think clonezilla might do what you want.   But i could be
>>     mistaken.  Are they all exactly the same hardware?
>>
>>     On Apr 21, 2014 4:10 AM, "girlgeek" <girlgeek at wt.net
>>     <mailto:girlgeek at wt.net>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi All,
>>         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.
>>
>>         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.
>>
>>         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?
>>
>>         TYIA,
>>         Claudia
>>
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