Arch Linux

knue

Member

Registered: 2011-10-11

Posts: 25

bulk customized arch installations

Hello everyone,

I'd like to install about 20 PCs with arch at our university.

I would like to adjust a couple of configs (like fstab, rc.conf, ...) and provide a bunch of packages with the installation without manually tweaking each installation. Is there a recommended way of doing this? I found the archiso tool in AUR. Are there better tools for this task?

Thanks for suggestions.

sakisds

Member

From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2011-10-03

Posts: 105

Re: bulk customized arch installations

If the machines are exactly the same you could just mirror the hard disks. There are a lot of tools for doing this, I used CloneZilla before and it works just fine.

knue

Member

Registered: 2011-10-11

Posts: 25

Re: bulk customized arch installations

Unfortunately, they are not. There are also a few 32-bit only machines while most are 64 bit (where I also want to install a 64-bit OS)

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: bulk customized arch installations

Take a look at AIF https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AI … ation_File

knue

Member

Registered: 2011-10-11

Posts: 25

Re: bulk customized arch installations

thanks, I'll try that out. I will report my experiences, after installation.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: bulk customized arch installations

thanks, I'll try that out. I will report my experiences, after installation.

Any progress? :-)