-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Tremblay wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 17:22 +0100, G T Smith wrote:
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Dave Howorth wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 17:07 -0400, James Tremblay wrote:
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 What makes you say this? If the systems are identical why can't you just copy the raw disk from the master system?
Cheers, Dave
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What would be useful is a script could be run against an already configured machine, that created a DVD (or network image) containing all hardware related RPMS, only the RPMs required for the particular setup, Then installed a script which went through the hardware phase, automatically installed the defined RPMs and then generated unique keys/certificates as the installation CD/DVD does and only prompts for things like machine name for a configured machine
The YaST AutoInstall system seems to have some of the this kind of capability but seems to be rather complex to use .... In fact page 2 of the manual for this answers your question to some extent...
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GT, Thanks for your answer. I have an SLA with Novell that includes the Zenworks Suite, I'm having a hard time finding any documentation pertaining to "preparing a SLED10 \SUSE linux image for Cloning".
Spent a lot of time trying to get the Institution I used to work to (allow me to) test and hopefully deploy Zenworks ... No success *sigh* Looking at the AutoInstall documentation further it seems that it uses a XML based script which largely goes through the options described by other posters in cloning a machine. Real problem is that no mechanism seems to exist to import an existing package configuration into the script and support for non-SuSE supported applications and other things (e.g. Netbeans, Funambol) that deploy either using a bin or jar file is a bit limited. The documentation can be found at... http://www.suse.de/~ug/autoyast_doc/index.html there is some further work going on but I would suspect Novell may be moving towards a Zenworks based solution. For my purposes, I want to establish a base-line configuration that has some flexibility on hardware configuration, so the next time I have the kind of messy system collapse I have just had, or I want to move to new hardware I can quickly get going again. Unfortunately, binary level disk image cloning is not an option, and even it was does not have any flexibility (it is rare after a hardware related failure that one is restoring to the same hardware configuration). I intend to research this further when I have rebuilt the failed machine.
James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket,NH http://en.opensuse.org/Education "let's make a difference"
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