On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Steve Clark <sclark at netwolves.com> wrote: > > If what you are really doing is the equivalent of cloning images, you > might look at clonezilla, or the backup/restore package called rear > (in EPEL). But for a quick brute-force change, you could probably > edit /etc/init/rcS-sulogin.conf and add the script you want to replace > /sbin/sushell. > > Hi Les, > > Yes I found that file - Thanks. > I'd still recommend looking at clonezilla and rear. Clonezilla-live is a CD you boot to save/restore images - and there is also a network server version for PXE booting and image storage. The good part is that it can handle windows along with most linux versions. The down side is that the restore disk has to be the same size or larger. Rear is a set of shell scripts that use your own system tools to build a bootable image containing the scripts you need to partition, format, and restore (pretty much exactly what you are doing but with more options). It is really intended as a backup with a fast simple restore back on the same hardware, but you have an opportunity to change the disk layout if needed so it works for cloning or moving a working system. In an case, the other thing new in 6.x is that you need to remove the udev rules for the NICs or update them with the new MAC addresses or the cloned machine will start its ethx names above the old ones, plus fix the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx files like you did in 5.x. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com