On 24 Oct 2002, Ken Foskey wrote:

> I have five computers exactly the same and I want to install them
> exactly alike.  Can someone give me the simple rsync command to install
> from one computer to another the exact setup of the working machine>

rsync -a remote:/ /

Should do it, I think.

The devil, of course, is in the detail.  If the new box doesn't have
anything on it, how are you going to run rsync on it?  Are you going to
overwrite libraries currently in use?

A better way to clone would be to do hard drive exchanges (HDD out of new
machine and into existing box as slave, then do a mass copy) and then fix up
LILO with a boot disk once the HDD is back in it's original home.

- Matt

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