Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: >> >>> Take a look at automated install using pxe. That way you can install >>> all clients identical with a short command on each client. Some >>> scripting is of course necessary to define the kickstart scripts. >>> Several good tutorials on this topic are available. Below is the a >>> link to the centos intro on this. >>> >>> http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/ch-kickstart2.html <snip> > Clonezilla (especially with the drbl server) can do this pretty > quickly over the network without having to juggle disks, but you end > up with the same problem with the NICs - and in fact you will have it > with any method of backing up and restoring on a different machine so > it is something to consider even if you aren't cloning. On 5.x, > kudzu would normally run on the new machine, rename all the > NIC-related files and create new default dhcp-based copies. Not sure > how 6.0 works in that respect. If it doesn't do it automatically, you <snip> We've gone to upgrading using rsync, and NICs are a problem. UDEV renames the NICs - eth0 to eth2, eth1 to eth3, and so there are no ifcfg-eth? for them. Removing the MAC fixes this, including down in /etc/udev/rules.d//70-persistant-net.rules mark, who just had that happen in the last week