Re: [Server-devel] Cloning and hardware addresses

2010-12-03 Thread David Leeming
erry Vonau; XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Cloning and hardware addresses On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:53 PM, David Leeming wrote: > Sub note to this. I found I had to delete the file altogether. Then it works. It regenerates the file with the new hardware addresses so if the HDD is moved a

Re: [Server-devel] Cloning and hardware addresses

2010-12-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:53 PM, David Leeming wrote: > Sub note to this. I found I had to delete the file altogether. Then it works. > It regenerates the file with the new hardware addresses so if the HDD is > moved again, I guess this step needs repeating. Yes. And if the NICs are replaced too

Re: [Server-devel] Cloning and hardware addresses

2010-12-02 Thread David Leeming
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 20:38 +1100, David Leeming wrote: > I have been cloning a “master” XS hard drive onto a number of copies, > to be used in different computers (of the exact same type). I used the > following simple way of cloning > > > > dd bs=8192 if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb > > > > wher

Re: [Server-devel] Cloning and hardware addresses

2010-12-02 Thread David Leeming
Cheers Jerry! David Leeming -Original Message- From: Jerry Vonau [mailto:jvo...@shaw.ca] Sent: Thursday, 2 December 2010 9:02 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: 'XS Devel' Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Cloning and hardware addresses On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 20:38 +1100, David Leeming

Re: [Server-devel] Cloning and hardware addresses

2010-12-02 Thread Jerry Vonau
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 20:38 +1100, David Leeming wrote: > I have been cloning a “master” XS hard drive onto a number of copies, > to be used in different computers (of the exact same type). I used the > following simple way of cloning > > > > dd bs=8192 if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb > > > > wher

[Server-devel] Cloning and hardware addresses

2010-12-02 Thread David Leeming
I have been cloning a "master" XS hard drive onto a number of copies, to be used in different computers (of the exact same type). I used the following simple way of cloning dd bs=8192 if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb where sda is the master and sdb is connected via USB. This done using a live CD to

Re: [Server-devel] Cloning

2010-08-19 Thread David Leeming
Leeming -Original Message- From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langh...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 13 August 2010 11:46 p.m. To: David Leeming Cc: XS Devel Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Cloning Hi David, super brief - - get the machine in 'single user mode' ("init 1"

Re: [Server-devel] Cloning

2010-08-13 Thread David Leeming
m the Department of Education (PNG) and others who I could train at the same time today and set up servers for 7 schools for which we have already completed training. David Leeming Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Cloning Hi David, super brief - - get the machine in 'single user mode' (

Re: [Server-devel] Cloning

2010-08-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi David, super brief - - get the machine in 'single user mode' ("init 1" on the commandline will work) - plug new disk in, setup the partition table, and the filesystems - rsync / and /library to the temp mountpoints - remove hardware-specific files: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persisntent-net.rules -

[Server-devel] Cloning

2010-08-13 Thread David Leeming
Are there any recommended ways of cloning an XS installation? We have tried Ping and Reflect but with difficulty. David Leeming ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel