Rony wrote:
Kickstart is the utility to clone machines based on the sample machine's settings.
Yes by kickstart we can do it. But I do not want to give much load on Network and many of the servers are not network with each other. Second thing I am planning to compile small Linux distro for making my work easy. Please help.
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 00:14, Neelesh Gurjar wrote:
Rony wrote:
Kickstart is the utility to clone machines based on the sample machine's settings.
Yes by kickstart we can do it. But I do not want to give much load on Network and many of the servers are not network with each other.
connect two drives in a linux machine dd if=<your master drive> of=<your slave drive>. next put the newly cloned slave as master in another machine aand add yet another slave drive. repeat abv. repeat abv to clone about 50 machines in a night. A network install is much better and efecient. But the abv is great if u dont have a network. with dd u are cloning the entire disk including blank areas. To cut time u could create a tar ball of your install and write a small script to create the partitions then untar the tarball on the new disk. make sure u have got the mbr from your orginal disk to plaster over the slaves mbr.
There is exactly such a script somewhere on the net. .
Second thing I am planning to compile small Linux distro for making my work easy. Please help.
Debian has plenty of tools for rolling your own.
Neelesh Gurjar wrote:
Rony wrote:
Kickstart is the utility to clone machines based on the sample machine's settings.
Yes by kickstart we can do it. But I do not want to give much load on Network and many of the servers are not network with each other. Second thing I am planning to compile small Linux distro for making my work easy. Please help.
Vivek's suggestion for disk cloning should work for you since all your systems are identical. the time taken too will reduce drastically.
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