Daniel_Curry at Dell.com wrote: > Understood. However, the investment in ks, now, may reap greater > dividends in the future. My opinion, only. > Given the reminder about LVM volume names, I am back to planning on doing the 3rd drive with ks. > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >