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.


LICENSE:

Portions of this code that have been written by the JACAL team are licensed under
the GNU Public License (GPL).


RAW, RAW, RAW:

Okay, this stuff is extremely raw. We just put this together from our setup
that we've been developing here in Taylor University's Computer Science
Department. It might (could, should, will, hopefully will) be useful for 
other locations.

The "install" file is _definitely_ incomplete. I tried to think of everything
that you need to do to use this stuff but it probably will not work even if
you do everything in the "install" doc. You'll probably want to check out the 
"components" documentation after that.

Also, don't forget to check the TODO file. It may give you some idea of why things
are the way that they are and where they are heading.


MORE INFORMATION:

GPL:
	http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html

Website:
	http://jacal.sourceforge.net

Contact:
	jabber@users.sourceforge.net
	gibber@users.sourceforge.net