Re: Need to clone machines efficiently - help?

[Erik Winn <erikwinn@users.sourceforge.net>]

Hi Aaron,

 Thanks very much for the pointer - I'm reading the docs for it and it looks 
very promising. Might even be worth building a couple of debs from it ... no 
promises on that right now though :).

 Happy "whicheveryouprefer"!

Erik Winn

On Monday 25 December 2000 01:08, Aaron Lehmann wrote:

> > On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 12:15:50AM -0800, Erik Winn wrote:
> >  Here is the first obstacle - not really a big one, but I spent all day
> > digging around and couldn't really find any tools for this one: we want
> > to be able to clone the machines easily over the local net.
> > boot floppy that asks only for the eth0 config and t
>
> While I was at VA, I worked with SystemImager, which is available at
> http://systemimager.org. It might be what you're looking for. It
> requires the hardware to be basically identical across machines. Once
> you set up the server, which is a significant task, cloning the master
> client onto the other clients is a cinch, involving putting the
> automatically-generated floppy disk into the disk drive and turning on
> the computer.
>
> I wrote a setup guide for SystemImager a few months ago.
> Unfortunately, I seem to have lost it :-(.

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