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 > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos