Hi,
I have to install ubuntu or something similar on about 20 aging
workstations without cd drives. THese are donated boxes with small hard
drives (as small as 2.1 gig, but not all identical) all wiped clean.
my thought is: do a workstation install of ubuntu on one drive and get
it all cleaned up the way I want it; shrink the partition down to a
minimum size to avoid copying lots of empty sectors; make a disk image
with dd; shutdown, install a second drive;and then:
fdisk /dev/hdb, and set up / and swap partitions
mkswap /dev/hdb5 # do I need to do this?
# Do I need to create an e2fs fs on /dev/hdb1?
dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/hdb1 # will this work if the partitions
# are not of exactly equal size?
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=448 count=1 # does this install GRUB?
so, my question is: is this the right way to go about this? am I
missing any steps? is there a better way to do it?
thanks much,
matt