On Sunday 29 April 2001 03:38 pm, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
I have to install suse 7.1 on a bunch of machines. (all with same scsi driver, same video driver) I have installed one machine, and I would like some way to do the same install on a number of boxes.
My current idea is to 1) Make a bootable CD (sort like Suse rescue CD) with perl and some other nifty stuff . 2) make tarballs of my current install and stick them on (a bunch of) CDs 3) boot from CD1) run the install script which will - format harddrive(s) - mkreiserfs on hda5 hda6 - untar tarrballs from CD2 - > cd99
Now my main question is: - How do I make a CD1 (or more to the point, how do I make such a bootable iso image ?
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I have an idea though, that you might want to get other people's advice on. If you have several machines, all with the same configuration as a machine that you already have set up just like you want, why not ghost the hard drive of the first machine onto the hard drives of the other machines? All it would take, if I'm not mistaken, is to place the hard drives of the other machines into the /dev/hdb position (2nd position, next to the first drive on the master machine) and dd (device dump) all of the data from /dev/hda to /dev/hdb, and then put the now identical hard drive back into the other machine. This would probably save you a ton of time, since drive to drive copies are extremely fast when they are sitting right next to each other on the same IDE channel. Good luck, Steven