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. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
