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Hi,
Also, here's some information on duplicating hard drives which may be
of interest:
http://www.linuxvalley.it/encyclopedia/ldp/lg/issue17/answer.html#duplic
Assuming your simple setup, where *you* have physical access to all 25
boxes... a procedure proposed in one of the many HOWTOs out there (on
the topic of boot disks) is to create a custom boot disk (CDROM) with
a dd-ed image of the original system which is mounted (after boot) and
the files are copied to the new hard drive by the customised boot
script on the boot disk. The boot script then runs lilo (for i386)
etc... and you're a happy chappy. (You could use a NFS mounted
original image with this procedure too.)
That all said, systemimager, fai, and lui, are probably best if you
wish to ease future maintainence of the boxes.
On Thursday, 1 November, 2001, Malcolm Cowe scribbled:
> What about IBM's LUI:
>
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/lui
>
> or SystemImager:
>
> http://systemimager.sourceforge.net/
>
> or FAI (Debian):
>
> http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/
>
>
> --
> Malcolm Cowe.
> IT | Technical Computing, Telephone: +44 131 331 6466
> Agilent Technologies Ltd. Telnet: 313-3466
>
>
> Zachariah Mully wrote:
> >
> > Hello all-
> > I am looking for some advice from all the linux veterans out there.
> > Over the next 1-2 months I have to put about 25 new linux servers out
> > into production and I am a little worried about the time that it is
> > going to take me. In the past I have done every install by hand, but
> > going through the damn install process to pick the packages takes as
> > long as it does to actually install the software. I have looked at
> > RedHat's Kickstart, but a fair number of the servers are DAC960 SCSI
> > RAID based, and if I understand the KS documentation correctly, it won't
> > work in these cases.
> > So whats the secret to mass installs? I am standardizing on RH7.1
> > with
> > kernel 2.4.13, so I need to build an image with the new kernel and I
> > would like to keep the image to the lowest common denomenator. I have no
> > problem going through each box before deployment to make sure that any
> > box specific software/configurations are installed, so the less specific
> > the image the better I feel.
> > I was thinking of doing a Norton Ghost setup, but the cash for the
> > Corporate version isn't exactly at hand right now, so I would like to
> > look at other (cheaper/free) alternatives.
> >
> > Thanks for the advice!
> >
> > Zack
> >
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