Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
Take a look at automated install using pxe. That way you can install all clients identical with a short command on each client. Some scripting is of course necessary to define the kickstart scripts. Several good tutorials on this topic are available. Below is the a link to the centos intro on this.
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/ch-kickstart2.htm...
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Clonezilla (especially with the drbl server) can do this pretty quickly over the network without having to juggle disks, but you end up with the same problem with the NICs - and in fact you will have it with any method of backing up and restoring on a different machine so it is something to consider even if you aren't cloning. On 5.x, kudzu would normally run on the new machine, rename all the NIC-related files and create new default dhcp-based copies. Not sure how 6.0 works in that respect. If it doesn't do it automatically, you
<snip> We've gone to upgrading using rsync, and NICs are a problem. UDEV renames the NICs - eth0 to eth2, eth1 to eth3, and so there are no ifcfg-eth? for them. Removing the MAC fixes this, including down in /etc/udev/rules.d//70-persistant-net.rules
mark, who just had that happen in the last week