Daniel_Curry@Dell.com wrote:
How about installing one, and using the anaconda-ks that is generated to install the other two?
That was my first plan. But that just saves the time going through the install selection and getting the same stuff installed.
I would still have to do the yum update (though there was the post about how to include the update repo in a kickstart install. Then I have the powerk8 kernel patch to install (these are old systems with new drives), followed by a number of config file changes (setting up IPtables, changing SSHD, configing VNC, etc). All that is a lot to work out for a kickstart install.
The pointer of running dd fromLinux Rescue sounded good. But Clonezilla calls for some real investigation.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 4:23 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting up thedrives?
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:11 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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Is there some way, (with dd I might guess) to do a hardare level copy?
I've seen many posts on this list that recommend Clonezilla for this sort of thing. You run off CD and it is said to be faster than DD because it is hardware aware (forgive the alliteration) and so only copies actual data.
I've not had occassion to use it though.
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I would want to copy the paritition table and my 3 partitions (/boot, swap, LVM (/ and /home ext3 partitions in the LVM)) and all their
contents.
Thing is I only have one USB drive enclosure so I would be running
from
the drive I want to copy from.
I would hope this is faster than 2 more installs.
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HTH