disk duplication question

[Stuart Marshall <stuart@igpp.ucllnl.org>]

Hi,

I would like to duplicate a hard drive that has Debian
installed to use of several additional computers.

I can write a script which does:

  sfdisk to partition the new drive;
  mke2fs to make file systems on the new drive;
  mkswap to initialize the swap area on the new drive;
  cd old-partition; find . -mount | cpio -pdm /new-partition
         (for each partition).

But then to finish it seems I need to boot the new computer
(after installing the new drive) with a boot floppy and
run lilo by hand.

Is there some way to also install the stuff that lilo does
on the new drive?  The new machines will not usually have
a floppy so I would like to avoid that step.

thanks,
Stuart