Andrew Brown wrote: > Things have been going slow for me since I started classes, so sorry > for the sparse updates. > > I never did figure out why restoring the mbr and partitions separately > produced an unbootable system, and it's something I'll need to > eventually solve. > > However, for now I've taken a step back and just focused on getting > entire drives cloned with dd. Now instead of copying each partition > separately, I just copy all of /dev/sda (or whatever is configured) to > file. > > The attached base.cfg kickstart file is attached. I just finished > testing it. It's slow, takes up a lot of space, but it works. I took > an image of a machine, and restored it to another machine with > identical hardware. > > Next step is to get the partition by partition copying working, which > is what I was trying to do before. I'll do some tests to try to > figure out what I was missing with my previous approach. > > -Andrew > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
That's ok, we're chasing lots of random features at the same time, so no rush on this one. Ultimately we have a pretty good solution now for supporting foreign OS's by using "cobbler image add" and "koan with --image" to install ISO's, so we have a route to installing Windows and foreign OS's in fullvirt that way. Physical cloning tools would be interesting but I think they are not nearly as critical (and would be a case where I'd rather see p2v migration first). When referring to dd (I imagine over NFS), how slow does slow mean? Just curious there (I can imagine pretty slow). Attachment seems to be missing? Can you resend it? --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
