too much [physical] work kiggs !


On Jul 22, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:

> 
> 
> Install one machine then 
> Put the hard disks to be cloned of the second one in the first PC one as a 
> secondary hard disk
> 
> Then on command line run 
> 
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
> 
> If = Input File (Source hard disk) and of = output (cloned drive)
> 
> It will also do the partitions in the cloning 
> 
> If you can put more than one disk in the PC you can write a for loop and do 
> it 
> 
> Something like (if you could put on 5 disks sdb, sdc, sdd, sde and sdf)
> 
> for i in /dev/sd[b-f] ; do dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/$i ; done
> 
> Kiggs
> 
> On Jul 22, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Markus A. Wipfler wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> what are my options for automating installation of 15 PCs (same hardware)? I 
>>  want to avoid installing them 1 by 1, or having to burn 15 cd's.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
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