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Disclaimer

Authors

Replicator is an original work by Loïc Prylli (lprylli@lhpca.univ-lyon1.fr). It originated as some custom scripts to help quickly installing computer classrooms and or clusters of computers. As I (Sébastien Chaumat (schaumat@ens-lyon.fr)) needed to do the same kind of work (having the same Debian/GNU Linux system on a lot of different computers), we started to transform the initial scripts to make a general-purpose system allowing to quickly and non-interactively install computers in any networked environment. It allows you to choose for each station whether it will be a full install, a ``/usr nfs-mounted'' install or a diskless install. It can handle automatically the main steps of hardware detection (hard disk, Xfree86), and partitioning (either a completely automatic partitioning with the option of preserving your DOS/Windows partition, or a manual partitioning preserving some of the hard disk filesystems).

Your work

If you use Replicator please post your comments to the public open discussion forum at SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum\_id=36345

License

Copyright (C) 1999-2001 by Sébastien Chaumat (schaumat@ens-lyon.fr). and Loïc Prylli (lprylli@lhpca.univ-lyon1.fr)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as /usr/share/common-licences/GPL in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution or on the World Wide Web at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

Greetings

Pascal Degiovani (degio@ens-lyon.fr) convinced me to look for an auto-install tool for Linux. He introduced Loïc Prylli to me. I'm very grateful to him.

I thanks the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon for its support.

Bertrand Louis-Lucas proof-read this documentation.

Dominique Ponsard and Hervé Brunet made beta-testing.

Thanks to all users who reported bugs and made suggestion.

Support

Limited support is available in the public area at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/replicator/

We would be really pleased to help you.


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