Re: automated installer

[William Mulvihill <will.mulvihill@dxrgroup.com>]

Maybe I should have clarified a bit.  Yes it sounds odd, but they are 
not going to be connected to the Internet.  Just a private LAN.  
Otherwise, heck yeah!  I'd suggest web hosting and at my reasonable 
prices ;)

Thanks for the suggestions.

-Will Mulvihill

Sean Jewett wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, William Mulvihill wrote:
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>>Hi everyone,
>>    I'm wondering if there is anything in Linux distros that would work 
>>in this situation.  I have a client who wants to have a Linux server 
>>serving our product, but they want to know NOTHING about Linux.  They 
>>also don't want to continue to pay me to support it.  So they want some 
>>kind of "recovery" disk that would reinstall the server from scratch, 
>>including OS and my web application.  There is no user data that would 
>>need to be saved.  They just want some kind of disk that they can slap 
>>into the drive on boot up and follow a few (very few and dead simple) 
>>instructions, press a few (the less the better!) keys, and voila!  Their 
>>server is restored.
>>    
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>This is definately one of the crazier things I've heard in awhile.  As 
>someone pointed out, webhosting but it sounds like if they're going to be 
>that cheap then webhosting is out.
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>Please tell me they're running this on a 486 :)
>
>Mondo (search for it on Freshmeat) is probably a good way to get them back 
>up and running if the HD fails and user data is not important (well, Mondo 
>is good if user data is important).  In your case you'd only need to run 
>Mondo backup once and then test it to make sure it will recover.  Once 
>you're satified with the recovery then all they should need to do is pop 
>the disc back in.
>
>Sean..
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