Re: [Debian] installing multiple PC's
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 02:21:35PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to install a number of PC's with an identical (or allmost)
> setup. However, I don't want to have to choose the packages I want
> to install every time again. So I'm thinking of creating a
> iso9660 CD-ROM from the harddisk on one PC and then using the
> rescue disk to create a fs on the other PC's and just copy the
> contents of the CD to those PC's. Afterwards changing the hostname
> of the name should be enough to have it up and running in the network
> I figure.
Sounds like a plan :)
> However I'm not sure how to make an image of my initial harddisk.
> If I simple create an iso9660 image using makeisofs I will probably
> loose permissions, ownership and the /dev and /proc directories
> wright? Using tar should fix the permissions and ownership but I'm
> still not sure what will happen with /dev and /proc.
>
> Does anybody have any idea how to do this?
yes...this sounds like you want to do basically what I do with
my tape drive every time I back up.
Try this (note: if anything you want is on a differnt mounted
partition from / then it must be separatly included)
tar clvf filename /
then either make an iso9660 image or...
I think with linux CD writting tools you can just burn the file right onto the
device...
thne you could "tar xvf /dev/<cdromdevice>"
as for /dev and /proc
this will copy /dev properly...but not proc...fortunatly thats what you
want... you don't need to copy ANYTHING from /proc/
as an alternative... you can (if you have a network) put this ina directory
and get it through the network.
Tom's Unix On a FLoppy root-boot disk supports many ethernet cards and all
sorts of utilities (all sorts as in..."I don't believe how muhc he got
on 1 floppy)
you can get it from:
http://www.clark.net/~toehser/
-Steve
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