[CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting upthedrives?

[Daniel_Curry at Dell.com]

Understood.  However, the investment in ks, now, may reap greater
dividends in the future.  My opinion, only.

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 6:35 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Three Identical systems - short cut to setting
upthedrives?

Daniel_Curry at 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 at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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:
>   
>> <snip>
>>     
>
>   
>> 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.
>
>   
>> <snip>
>>     
>
>   
>> 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.
>> <snip sig stuff>
>>     
>
> HTH
>   
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