[CentOS] Cloned Centos Boxes - First Run to run again?

Sun Jan 10 11:58:35 UTC 2010
Christoph Maser <cmr at financial.com>

Am Sonntag, den 10.01.2010, 12:26 +0100 schrieb Mr Gabriel:
> I need to build a bank of 12 centos boxes, for an experiment I'm doing.
> I don't want to install centos 12 times, I'm using virtual box across
> three machines, how can I get the first run scripts to run again to that
> the box is reconfigured on it's next boot.
>
> I want each box to appear like a fresh unique install.

Network install via kickstart is the standard solution. It only requires
a tfpt-server and a CentOS mirror.

Chris


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