On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 12:37, Will McDonald wrote: > On 10/02/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin at 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 at gmail.com