On Thursday July 3 2008, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am building three identical systems. Well they will have different > host names, and with time the software setups will drift. But at > install time they are identical. > > Is there some way, (with dd I might guess) to do a hardare level copy? > > All three drives are Hitachi DK23DA-40F (40Gb). Supposedly factory > reconditioned (they are in sealed bags with a drive sticker stating: > "Refurbished to Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Specifications"). > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Kickstart the system 2 & 3 after the install on #1 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080703/bcc70501/attachment-0005.sig>