[Novalug] PCRetro company is drowning in computers

James Ewing Cottrell III JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Sat Aug 3 01:48:15 EDT 2013


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On 7/26/2013 11:27 AM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
> I'd be interested in setting up a PXE boot environment for installing
> Scientific Linux via a Kickstart file. I could talk to Richard Harmon
> with Nova Labs to see if he'd be willing to help me with that. I just
> picked up on corporate auction a lot of 11 Wyse WinTerm thin clients
> that I'm going to convert to pfSense firewalls and flip, and this would
> be an ideal application for one.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Derek LaHousse <dlahouss@mtu.edu
> <mailto:dlahouss@mtu.edu>> wrote:
>
>     While I know a few things about PXE booting, I would enjoy the
>     opportunity to understand how the Debian installer can use an
>     answers file.  I imagine that'd be the fastest way to install on
>     diverse hardware, rather than the image one would use on identical
>     hardware.
>     But, old computers are old.  They're power-hungry, they're slow
>     (comparatively).  Is there maybe a reason why PCRetro can't move them?
>
>     TL;DR: I'm in to help install Debian or Trisquel, but question the
>     outcome.
>
>
>     On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Kevin Cole <dc.loco@gmail.com
>     <mailto:dc.loco@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:58 AM, greg pryzby <greg@pryzby.org
>         <mailto:greg@pryzby.org>> wrote:
>          > IF you have a place to do this, I would be happy to help. I
>         am going to
>          > guess we could get some $ for flash drives (assuming they
>         will boot off USB)
>          > from Google or the OS we pick is possible.
>          >
>          > This would be a GREAT PROJECT for someone looking for
>         experience in SysAdmin
>          > as you would need to figure out how to install 100 machines
>         quickly vs 1 at
>          > a time.
>
>         If folks are feeling ambitious -- really ambitious, it may be useful
>         to get ideas from Free Geek (http://www.freegeek.org/) in Portland,
>         OR.  Their wiki (http://wiki.freegeek.org/) contains a lot of
>         information regarding how they operate.  See also, a summary of
>         their
>         operations at http://opensource.com/life/13/1/free-geek
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