Project Description

The JACAL Project is a suite of programs, scripts, guidelines, protocols, documentation, diskettes, etc. that assist in quick, network based loads/builds of machines. A single build diskette is placed in the target machine and the machine is rebooted. The diskette contains a small network based Linux installation that prompts for the machine name. Build options are then selected and the machine is built automatically from start to finish. Build options include setting up a multiboot system with Windows NT, Windows 9X, and/or Linux installed and fully configured for that particular machine's hardware and network configuration.

The original purpose of this project was to facilitate the complete automatic rebuild of Taylor University's Computer Science (http://www.css.tayloru.edu/) labs complete with 75+ Win NT applications and a full Linux installation on the same machine in an hour.