On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:06:57PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > .... > Yeah, what Simon meant was that these are hardware-specific things that are > set during install/use, which make an Ubuntu install harder to 'port' to > different hardware... one of the things that has traditionally been a great > strength of Debian (in particular, but also some other distros). > > A cute way of 'cloning' Ubuntu machines is the OEM installer, originally > built for box pushers, but very useful for any disk cloning mass install > requirement.
Reminds of one of my sysadmin war stories; hp-ux has something called 'ignite' where you can clone a machine and use it to install to other similar hardware. All well and good, but ... when you configure networking with hp-ux's SAM gui it sets all the networking parameters _including mac address_, even if you haven't set/changed the mac address. After we got these you beaut machines built from the 'golden' image using ignite, we wondered why we couldn't get them to communicate over the network. Of course they all had the same mac address. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
