On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 00:21 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On 4 June 2011 00:00, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@activitycentral.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 09:40:48AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan > >> <srid...@laptop.org.au> wrote: > >> > On 3 June 2011 21:31, Aleksey Lim <alsr...@activitycentral.org> wrote: > >> >> btw, did someone try to use cloning paradigm for setting up new school > >> >> servers instead of using regular install way? Just clonning the system > >> >> will lest avoid many issues by design. > >> > > >> > Do you mean creating an image of a server installation and applying it > >> > to other machines? > >> > > >> > We've done that with the XS-AU (using clonezilla), and I'm pretty sure > >> > it works with an OLPC XS. > >> > >> Note that without a script that cleans up config & state, you're bound > >> to have some fun problems with the resulting systems. > > > > Do you mean particular script, which one? > > You'll need to clean up: > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (delete the lines that > refer to all the eth devices)
Oh yeah, udev's obnoxious persistent-net-generator! I always delete it along with the other persistent nonsense for cdroms. It should be taught as a case-study of how a seemingly well designed attempt at fix a small annoyance in the system could lead to much greater pain in several real-world situations :-) -- _ // Bernie Innocenti \X/ http://codewiz.org _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
