Dne Wednesday 04 July 2007 23:07:34 James Tremblay napsal(a):

> How does on build an image for and what tools does one need to clone a

> master image to a lab?

> If the simple copying of an image leaves you with an unbootable system

> and even a tool like ACRONIS leaves you with tasks what then does one

> do?

> Is there a set of commands like "sysprep" for creating a master? Is

> there a guide?

> --

> James Tremblay

> Director of Technology

> Newmarket School District

> Newmarket,NH

> http://en.opensuse.org/Education

> "let's make a difference"

I read this interesting thread and i want to give you my 2` cents.

For purpose booting many computers with same (similar) image and for updating them we use special process in NLPOS9.

We boot standard system (small kernel with small initrd) from PXE/DHCP and than download "working" image over ftp. Then we unpack this working image and chroot in it. All configurations are done off-line, when image is prepared.

After every boot we can ensure updated and prepared environment. Images could be build with kiwi [1]

For more information about NLPOS9 [2] - 1.1 Architecture overview

[1] - http://en.opensuse.org/KIWI

[2] - http://www.novell.com/documentation/nlpos9/pdfdoc/nlpos9_install/nlpos9_install.pdf

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Pavel Nemec

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