On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 12:37, Will McDonald wrote:
On 10/02/06, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
I need to do an install on 12 identical computers. Once I have done the install on one of them, is there a simple way to duplicate the drive to the next computer.
I do not have access to Ghost, any suggestion?
network install + kickstart.
Or for a low-tech solution, if the disks are identical, boot rescue mode from CD and
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
Where sda is the whole disk of an already installed system and sdb is a blank disk.
Yes, this is the easy way, especially it the drives are in hot-swap bays. If you edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* files to change the IP's, be sure to remove the HWADDR= line so it will work after you move to the real server. Depending on how the server was configured, you may or may not have corresponding files under /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default that need to be adjusted or removed.
-- Les Mikesell lesmiksesell@gmail.com