James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > If I have an installed system that I wish to duplicate and install on > a dozen other machines. What Linux tools are there for this. > The system to be copied is a Suse 9 and Suse 10 install using ext3 > partitions. > > I would like to do the install from either CD/DVD or Backup tape. > Is there a tool that would create a CD boot install disk being a copy > from an existing system?
Some ideas; for test, development equipment, critical servers and sometimes workstations I use two methods over networks to clone boxes from master images... 1) Partimage server and either PXE boot or a Linux CDROM distro. http://www.partimage.org/ Once this is permanently built you will have a robust and fast cloning and re-image facility. 2) Netcat for a quick to implement but less permanent solution, something like:- Usually installed but if not ]#yum -y install nc (or equiv.) *Slave* (Receiver) - the machine you want to re-image - IP 192.168.0.10. ]#nc -l -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sd$ (replace /dev/sd$ with the drive on your machine, i.e. sda) *Master* (Sender) - machine containing the image you want to copy (can either boot the master from a live disk or create an image in advance in which case you would use dd if=image_file.img...) ]#dd if=/dev/sd$ | nc 192.168.0.10 9000 To speed up the process significantly don't dd complete disks, just partitions and a MBR after creating them with fdisk separately instead. Regards Damian -- http://www.diap.org.uk - sustainable archive system under development. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
