> From: Jim Bonnet > you've lost me.. What are you trying to do? > > Are you just trying to clone a disk so that you can distribute that > clone to like hardware?
I'm cloning /dev/sda7 onto /dev/sdb such that I can then use /dev/sdb as /dev/sda... in otherwords, I take a blank (or M$ infested) disk outa it's case, cable it up to a master system, run an expect script that does fdisk, run a bash script that does mkfs, mkswap, tar|tar, and lilo and then put the blank disk into it's case... and then--voila!--I have a clone! It's entirely possible... I figured it out... I have an expect script to write the partition table and a bash script to do the rest... the write-MBR-on-/dev/?db magic is... mount /dev/hdb1 /slave vi /slave/etc/lilo.conf # set... disk=/dev/hdb [...] root=/dev/hda1 lilo -r /slave vi /slave/etc/lilo.conf # set... disk=/dev/hda umount /slave I also have a (config) script that does kudzu, sets ip/domain name, enables NIS/AFS, gens ssh keys, inits tripwire, and the like. I just cloned and configured a RedHat system (albeit a P4 2GHz with the case already open and a SCSI Ultra160 disk) in just under *seven* minutes. (I expect to bring up hundreds of linux boxes for a compute cluster.) If anyone wants to know more or see the scripts give me a shout. ~namaste~ (llama) steve - - - systems & network guy high energy physics university of wisconsin _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
