On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:27 PM, dnk d.k.emaillists@gmail.com wrote:

Well as opposed to an image, why not use kickstart?

kickstart will be good option ,we have same installation scheme ,but what about third party s/ws.

dnk

On 13-Aug-08, at 2:52 AM, kapil singh wrote:

Hello,

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I am using Cent OS 5.2 . i want to create one master image of whole running OS becoz i have to do same installation many times on different machines. so any one suggest me to how create and run the image of whole OS at the time of installation or , which escape me to install each and every thing many times. i would not like to create image using dd. any suggestions ??

Thanks and Regards Kapil Singh Kushwah Linux System/Network Administrator Hotwax Media Inc. Indore,(M.P) INDIA

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kapil singh schrieb:

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:27 PM, dnk <d.k.emaillists@gmail.com mailto:d.k.emaillists@gmail.com> wrote:

Well as opposed to an image, why not use kickstart?

kickstart will be good option ,we have same installation scheme ,but what about third party s/ws.

I think you have to create a repo for that.

What 3rd-party SW, BTW? Does it come as RPM?

Rainer

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Rainer Duffner wrote:

Install cobbler and use that to do a mass-installation. http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/

"dd" is so "20th century"....

Hey this cobbler thing is great. I didn't know RH has it. Thanks for the info Rainer. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 13:10:54 up 5:02, 2.6.24-18-generic GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org The real challenge of teaching is getting your students motivated to learn.

Toby Bluhm wrote:

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I am using Cent OS 5.2 . i want to create one master image of whole running OS becoz i have to do same installation many times on different machines. so any one suggest me to how create and run the image of whole OS at the time of installation or , which escape me to install each and every thing many times. i would not like to create image using dd. any suggestions ??

Clonezilla is designed with your intent in mind. I believe it should support lvm & sw raid.

www.clonezilla.org

Clonezilla is great for single disk images and can handle lvm and windows partitions, but it doesn't do software raid unless you create it yourself and use partition copy mode. Clonezilla will be the fastest way if the machines have a single disk or hw raid - it is very fast and you'll only have to change the hostname and IP of the finished copies. For a few machines you can use the clonezilla-live bootable iso and connect to a network drive for the images via nfs, smb, or ssh. For a large number of machines you can install the companion drbl program to pxe-boot into clonezilla with the image storage already mounted.

Next best in speed would be a kickstart install - and again you can use a minimal-setup approach for a small number of machines by dropping the file created by your initial install onto an existing web server and giving the URL at the boot prompt of a DVD or NFS install, and the simple way to do additional setup is to export an NFS share with the content and install script you need do drop it in. It's a couple of command lines to mount the share and execute the script. If you have a very large number of machines you can automate it completely with cobbler - or the drbl progran can be configured to do kickstart installs too.