Is there a tool in Opensuse 10.2 to "clone" a machine , that is I define a master with all desired softwares and network/NFS/LDAP ... configuration, then I am able to install many others machines with the same conf. There is such tool in HP-UX called IGNITE , would be great if Opensuse have a similar tool.
Autoyast is meant to do this for larger installations. http://www.suse.com/~ug/
Autoyast is really great, but maybe sometimes a bit overkill (in setup) if you just want to clone one machine... Another way would be to do it 'by hand': - boot some live-cd (suse live-cd or knoppix) on the "empty" system - create partitions as needed and create filesystems - mount the new partitions - mount all filesystems of the system that should be cloned by NFS (*) - copy all files via rsync -auvx /source /destination to the new system - setup a bootloader: start 'grub' and enter (assuming that /boot is your first partition on your fist disk): root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) I'm sure there are many other (maybe better) ways, but i had good experiences with this one ... (*) or setup rsync in server mode on this machine -- David Mayr, http://davey.de openSUSE LINUX, http://opensuse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org