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_inst... -- Pavel Nemec Software Engineer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: pnemec@suse.cz Lihovarska 1060/12 tel:+420 284 028 981 190 00 Praha 9 fax:+420 296 542 374 Ceska republika http://www.suse.cz --------------------------------------------------------------------- HACK WEEK http://idea.opensuse.org/