On Sb, 24 mai 14, 12:07:04, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running a series of experiments tweaking my Debian install. > The procedure I wish to follow is: > 0. Primary partition will have a normal install and will NOT be modified > Grub2 installed to a second primary partition Do you mean "installed in the first sector of the partition" or just the config is pointing to that partition? > 1. install a minimal system to a logical partition > 2. "clone" that partition to four additional logical partitions > 3. Tweak the copies to have unique > a. hostname > b. partition label > c. UUID > > Running dd from the "master" on the primary partition satisfies "cloning" > function. > Labeling partition done easily with gparted etc. > Hostname can be set in /etc/hostname . You already have the answer, just a comment: > How can I have each of the "clones" have a unique UUID. All partitions will > be bootable and I suspect Grub could have problems. Grub doesn't care about the bootable flag, but yes, depending on grub.cfg having several partitions with same UUID can cause problems. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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