Re: Identical systems

From: Les Mikesell (les_at_futuresource.com)
Date: 01/08/05

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    On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 18:07, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
    > What's the easiest way to, after a system gets setup (FC3 installed
    > fresh on the drive), "replicate" it across other machines with the same
    > hardware? Basically I want to end up with several machines with the
    > same setup and programs.

    If the hard disks are identical, you can do a complete image copy which
    will take the boot setup, partitioning et. along. This is really easy
    with servers that have swappable drive carriers, but you can also do
    it over the network. I usually boot a knoppix CD because it detects
    most hardware and comes up with the network running. Start an sshd
    server on the master, then from the clone machine do something like:
    ssh master_ip_address dd if=/dev/hda |dd of=/dev/hda (appropriate
    disk names, of course). Go to lunch - it will take a while. Repeat
    if more than one drive is involved. Boot the new machine up and
    change it's name and ip address.

    If the drives aren't identical you can do approximately the same
    by partitioning/formatting the new drive yourself, then copying
    via tar to the new locations, but in this case you have to make
    the disk bootable yourself. 

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  Les Mikesell
    les@futuresource.com
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