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. ..snip... > I would hope this is faster than 2 more installs. its not do the install over the network from a http server, given the same network, it would be many times faster to do the 2nd and 3rd install using the ks.cfg generated from the 1st one ( as Terry Polzin already pointed out ). It will be many times faster than doing DD images of entire drives. eg. in my case here, i can provision a new machine in 2 min and 43 seconds for a base+core minimal centos-5 install. installing over http from a machine on a GiB/sec link and installing to a 2 disk raid-1 - KB