[CentOS] No network on cloned CentOS 7 installation

On Fri May 03 06:48:30 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a few identical Dell Optiplex 7010 machines that I want to use
> for our school's computer room. I tried to clone these installations
> (like I did before on CentOS 5 and various versions of Slackware), but
> this time I ran into a problem.
> 
> Here's what I did.
> 
> 1. Install one computer and zero unused hard disk sectors with dd.
> 
> 2. Send the image to a local FTP server using G4L (Ghost4Linux).
> 
> 3. Fetch the image on another computer.
> 
> 4. Boot the new computer in rescue mode and change the hardcoded
> /etc/hostname to a new value.
> 
> Let me add that I removed all hardcoded MAC addresses from
> /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-em1, which has only very limited information in it.
> 
> What else could cause the network to choke on a cloned installation?

Whenever I clone one machine to another (under CentOS 6 anyway) the
cloned machine comes up with a different network port, so I have to
move /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-eth1 and
update all the relevant entries in that file (as well as removing
the MAC address).

Cheers,
Zube