Affrikka
January 23rd, 2010, 08:21 PM
hey everyone!
Great news! My physics teacher and my friend's chemistry teach both want their computers blasted with ubuntu! I showed them both how great it was, especially yon those old crappy computers where (literally) it takes 35 mintues to get form the login screen to actually get logged on (and they have win 2k)
So I started in my physics teacher's lab, who has two rows of 16 computers, and blasted the whole left row, one by one, installing 9.10 on there (they are so fast now its insane)
The problem is this takes FOREVER as you can imagine to install ubuntu on 16 computers going 3 at a time.
So what I want to do is make an image of one cmputer thats totally done-- has all the software we need (which is just java adobe reader and open office) and install that image on all the rest of the computers at the same time. I know that with windows we've ghosted machines before but the head of technology (also my A+ teacher) won't show me how to make a ghosting image.
So is there any other way to copy 1 computer's software to all the rest of them at once?
---Yes, I do know about the..uhm....DKU kit? where you can "make your own distro" of ubuntu so that the ISO already has all the software we need on it, but I want to install it on the other 16 comptuers (as well as the other lab of 20) at the same time without burning 36 copies of it.
Thanks!! hopefully other teachers will realize (since multiple teachers use the same labs) and ubuntu will be all over the school :) and since our school is the technology school of the state so then maybe other schools will acknowledge us and you know :P
Mathieu
Great news! My physics teacher and my friend's chemistry teach both want their computers blasted with ubuntu! I showed them both how great it was, especially yon those old crappy computers where (literally) it takes 35 mintues to get form the login screen to actually get logged on (and they have win 2k)
So I started in my physics teacher's lab, who has two rows of 16 computers, and blasted the whole left row, one by one, installing 9.10 on there (they are so fast now its insane)
The problem is this takes FOREVER as you can imagine to install ubuntu on 16 computers going 3 at a time.
So what I want to do is make an image of one cmputer thats totally done-- has all the software we need (which is just java adobe reader and open office) and install that image on all the rest of the computers at the same time. I know that with windows we've ghosted machines before but the head of technology (also my A+ teacher) won't show me how to make a ghosting image.
So is there any other way to copy 1 computer's software to all the rest of them at once?
---Yes, I do know about the..uhm....DKU kit? where you can "make your own distro" of ubuntu so that the ISO already has all the software we need on it, but I want to install it on the other 16 comptuers (as well as the other lab of 20) at the same time without burning 36 copies of it.
Thanks!! hopefully other teachers will realize (since multiple teachers use the same labs) and ubuntu will be all over the school :) and since our school is the technology school of the state so then maybe other schools will acknowledge us and you know :P
Mathieu