On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 11:11 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
Ken Schneider - openSUSE said the following on 03/20/2013 10:56 AM:
Before I retired from the IT field we would install to a new harddrive and set everything the way we wanted, including the machine using DHCP and setting the host name via DHCP. We would then pull the drive and clone that drive to every other system we needed built the same. Seemed simple enough to me. And all of the machines were built with the same hardware to eliminate hardware config problems.
Seems simple enough to me as well.
Except that the master image is the USB.
Which makes me wonder about things like partition tables and booting.
You have control over the partition tables. I have mine set up to make a certain / and /swap. Then it fills the rest of the disk with /home. There are many more options than I use, like setting up RAID and such.
I suspect I'm going to be faced with a situation where not all the machines are exactly the same. I also think that the drives are going to be bigger than my USB stick.
My image for a rather full openSUSE 12.1 is usually 4.1 GB. It compresses the DD image.
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