[CentOS] No network on cloned CentOS 7 installation

Fri May 3 18:10:51 UTC 2019
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

> Am 03.05.2019 um 18:48 schrieb Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr>:
> 
> 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?

Any MACs in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ?

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LF