On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 13:10 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Install image file:
1. boot target system from knoppix or rescue or with NFS-root or or or 2. partition drive 3. create filesystems 4. for each partition do 4a. mount <part> /mnt 4b. cd /mnt 4c. tar xzvf <imagefile> 4d. cd - 4e. umount /mnt 5. run lilo if you intend to boot from harddisk.
Forgot to add that you need to create mount points such as /proc, maybe /dev, /sys. And I think you may need to exclude them from tar when creating the image file. Per, Thank you for the answer. That is a really complicated process, I imagine that you are telling me this needs to be done to each recipient? could it be set up as a pxe boot task? What about bit transfer type solutions like Ghost? Is there no way of setting a running system back to the hardware discovery process? could one re-invoke YaST-install at the last stage (after first reboot, when the system believes it has all its files in place? -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference"
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