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