Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/21/2011 03:43 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> The current version of anaconda supports that, but to the best of my >> recollection, the version used in RHEL 5 did/does not. > > Your recollection is wrong, I have never done a CentOS install except > for the first couple when I was learning with

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>The current version of anaconda supports that, but to the best of my >recollection, the version used in RHEL 5 did/does not. Your recollection is wrong, I have never done a CentOS install except for the first couple when I was learning without it... __

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/20/2011 07:52 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Over and over again I see this reco and it makes no sense? If you have > access to updates whether they be yours locally cached or remote, you > should add a repo line in your ks and "install" updates from the start. > It's faster/cleaner and just p

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Paul A
I was looking into this, creating my own rpms and using kickstart. Thanks for all the info guys. Paul Spiro Harvey wrote: >> Basically I want to clone this server and make it easy to install on >> another similar hardware server without having to install centos and >> then manually installin

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>You can have kickststart run a "yum update" so each box will have the >latest updates as at install time. Over and over again I see this reco and it makes no sense? If you have access to updates whether they be yours locally cached or remote, you should add a repo line in your ks and "install" up

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Spiro Harvey
> Basically I want to clone this server and make it easy to install on > another similar hardware server without having to install centos and > then manually installing/configuring dovecot/postfix/mysql etc. Not > sure if I can create a bootable ISO that will install on new servers > or what my opt

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
Hi Paul, On 20 January 2011 20:47, PA wrote: > Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled > dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These packages > have been configured and changed to my liking. How can I now save all this > and install it on another serv

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/20/2011 2:57 PM, PA wrote: > > I guess what I was asking for is to take a already configured server and put > it on multiple CD's DVD's and then use that to install on another server. Clonezilla has an option to save an image, then turn it into a bootable iso that will come up and install it

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I guess what I was asking for is to take a already configured server and put >it on multiple CD's DVD's and then use that to install on another server. Given that that will take some leg work, I accomplish the same thing by making a long %post section in a kickstart that runs various sed commands

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Mike McCarty
PA wrote: > I guess what I was asking for is to take a already configured server and put > it on multiple CD's DVD's and then use that to install on another server. Reading between the lines, ISTM that you don't have a verified means to do backups. If you can't do what you want, then you don't ha

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/20/2011 2:47 PM, PA wrote: > Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled > dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These > packages have been configured and changed to my liking. How can I now > save all this and install it on another server without hav

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread PA
: Thursday, January 20, 2011 3:50 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] cloning a server PA wrote: > > Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled > dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These > packages have been configured and changed t

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread Corey A Johnson
PA wrote: > > Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled > dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These > packages have been configured and changed to my liking. How can I now > save all this and install it on another server without having to do > all

[CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-20 Thread PA
Hi, I have a centos 5 (current) mail server that I have compiled dovecot/postfix and installed some packages like mysql etc. These packages have been configured and changed to my liking. How can I now save all this and install it on another server without having to do all the work of compiling inst