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Originally Posted by dnanian
When you say "individual identities (serial numbers, etc)", Anne, what exactly do you mean? The "etc" is the big thing here -- the systems will end up identical after this type of thing, except for the serial number (and other stuff that's in ROM, rather than on disk). That includes the machine names, which you'd have to customize individually...
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Thanks, Dave,
I really want to start from scratch on these machines (in use in classrooms for 4 years), so if I were setting each one up individually I'd probably start with erasing the hard drives. I want to preserve serial numbers, MAC addresses, and anything else that's machine-specific and not user-defined. The network uses dynamic IP addresses. I know that I'll need to go through and rename the machines and do a little tweaking of accounts, but I'd like to automate as much as is feasible. I'm afraid that I know just enough to be dangerous about this, and I don't want to mess things up or make more work for myself!