premrajm at digilink.in wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to install customized centos on multiple systems. Can PXE boot do > that ? > Apart from this is there any other way of doing image copy of centos OS > and installing it on several client machines through network. I used > clonezilla, but after image cloning, i will again have to use the > clonezilla LIVE CD on client machine to do a image restore. > > I want to make a clone of centos OS and store it in a server and keeping > installing it on multiple machines with same hardware features from > network. Is this possible ? If the hardware is similar enough that you can use clonezilla and you have a lot of machines, set up drbl to pxe-boot into clonezilla with the server mounted to access the image storage: http://drbl.sourceforge.net/. There's a yum repo that works with rhel/centos. Unlike cobbler, etc., this will also work to clone other linux versions and windows. If the image is small enough, you can also build a self-booting DVD that contains clonezilla plus the imagae - or you can put them on a bootable USB device. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com