On 16/07/10 05:45, TCPWave Customer Care wrote: > Hi > > What's the best way to clone a Centos installation? I have a bunch of > things that I have customized and I want to simplify the rollout to a > few 1850s. The current server uses a hardware based RAID1. Disk swapping > takes way too long and its not practical if the server is in another > state. > > I am thinking of creating a DVD/usb which would install my OS Image - > did anyone do this? > > I do have an option of installing the OS and restoring my customizations > via a tar ball...trying to find a better way than this.
Look into cobbler [1] and puppet [2]. cobbler will let you PXE boot your machines and do the initial install + customisations. You may also find puppet useful for ongoing configuration management. R. [1] https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ [2] http://www.puppetlabs.com/puppet/introduction/ _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
