On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:09 PM, RSCL Mumbai <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Are there any lightweight cd bootable distros which can clone the
>> image of the HDD on an external storage and then I can clone it back
>> later or on a different machine with same hardware ?
>
> I have used Clonezilla. Works great!
> It does Device to Device or create an image file on an external
> storage and restore it on another PC.
>
> The only thing I could not crack is the MAC address issue.
> Even if I have 2 identical PC/Server, the MAC addresses are different.
> When I restore the image on a new Hardware & boot the OS, it finds a new MAC.
> This results in creating a new interface leading to problems with
> firewall and other 'eth' based scripts.
>
> If anyone can throw any light on this, it would be of help.
>
find /etc -type f -exec egrep -Hin eth0 {} \;
will identify the udev file in your system.
Edit the relevant lines and you can map eth0 to the new MAC address.
-- Arun Khan
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