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

Sun Jul 6 03:59:48 UTC 2008
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

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
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>> install the other two?
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>>     
>
> 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:
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>>     
>>> <snip>
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>>> Is there some way, (with dd I might guess) to do a hardare level
>>>       
> copy?
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>>>     
>>>       
>> 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.
>>
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>>> <snip>
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>>> I would want to copy the paritition table and my 3 partitions (/boot,
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>
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>>> swap, LVM (/ and /home ext3 partitions in the LVM)) and all their
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>> contents.
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>>> Thing is I only have one USB drive enclosure so I would be running
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>> from 
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>>> the drive I want to copy from.
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>>> I would hope this is faster than 2 more installs.
>>> <snip sig stuff>
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>>>       
>> HTH
>>   
>>     
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