Why don't you use clonezilla (DRBL)? I use it all the time to multicast clones to ~30 machines in under 2 minutes...
> Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:48:20 -0400 > From: Ala Salman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: cloning edgy > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello: > > Our group (D-Drive at Dalhousie University) is trying to clone a cluster of 60 > nodes. The "master" node is an amd64 edgy server install. We then rsynced > the entire system over to another node except for: > > /proc/* > /sys/* > /etc/hostname > /etc/network/interfaces > /etc/adjtime > /etc/mtab > /var/lock/* > /var/mail/* > /var/run/* > /var/tmp/* > and then we ran grub-install at the end. > > Each of these nodes are equipped with two network cards, eth0 and eth1. > > When the cloned system boots, the network cards are detected at start up, but > the output of ifconfig -a shows that they are eth2 and eth3. I can only > bring up eth2. > > On the master node the output of df shows /var/run and /var/lock, but on the > cloned client there isn't any mention of these two. > > I also tried doing this cloning with the systemimager package, which is > essentially the same method that we used, and I still have this problem, so > it is an edgy (and maybe dapper) problem. > > any input is appreciated. > > Ala > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > > > End of ubuntu-server Digest, Vol 12, Issue 10 > ********************************************* > -- Kristian Hermansen -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server
