Re: Why is there no tool to make an identical installation on several PCs - or is there
hi ya
to clone onto a virgin disk ???
i like the old fashion way...
mount the new/virgin disk as hdc -- on a known good "cloning station"
( all clients are built the same way...
fdisk /dev/hdc
( fdisk.sh )
tar-up master-disk | untar onto-clone
clone.sh
aka
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Boot/Linux-1U/clone.rh-7.3.sh.txt
take that cloned disk to your new pc ... and you're done
except for minor tweeks such as ip# and re-rerunning lilo
( test that new clone on the working syste before trying on
( virgin hardware .. ( avoid [new|unknown] cpu/mem/disk/mb/user problems )
c ya
alvin
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Russell wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> >
> > Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> [2002-08-23 09:57:50 +0930]:
> > > On 0, "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > > > on Mon, Aug 19, 2002, Guido Hamacher (ghamacher@aachenconsulting.de) wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am looking for a tool that allows me to do an identical installation -
> > > >
> > > > FAI
> > >
> > > I am joining this thread late, so I don't know if anyone has brought
> > > this up, but I have recently been quite impressed by the KickStart
> > > option when installing RedHat 7.2/7.3. Using this I can boot from an
> > > install CD and specify:
> > >
> > > linux ks=http://1.1.1.1:80/ks.cfg
> > >
> > > as the LILO command, and it will automagically install and configure
> > > all the packages specified in that file (as well as other config info
> > > also in ks.cfg).
> > >
> > > Is there something like this for Debian?
> >
> > Well, if you had read the message you were replying to, you would have
> > seen that Karsten was suggesting FAI for that purpose. Fully
> > Automated Install. So it is humorous that you are asking something
> > that was answered even before you asked it.
> >
> > http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
> >
> > apt-cache show fai
> >
> > And I will also suggest SystemImager which is a good tool for rolling
> > systems off of the assembly line.
> >
> > http://www.systemimager.com/
> >
> > apt-cache show systemimager-doc
>
> These instructions are from RTAI:
>
> " One easy way to configure a kernel is to start from the configuration
> of a previous kernel. Copy the configuration file (typically found
> in /boot) to .config, and then run 'make oldconfig'. "
>
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