Another solution would be to use cpio to make an archive of the file
system and then expand this out onto a clean machine. I recently did
this and found it to be relatively painless. I did only use one large
partition (well two but I'm not counting the swap ;). On the machine
you want to mirror run:
#find / -xdev |cpio --create >arcive.cpio
Then on the clean machine (partition, mkswap, mke2fs):
#cpio --extract --no-absolute-filenames\ < archive.cpio
later,
Andy
"Robert L. Harris" wrote:
>
> This looks like a great start.
>
> Thanks
> Robert
>
> Thus spake Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Has anyone got a "scripted jumpstart" to work? I.E., for a very
> > >standard config things such as keyboard type, packages, etc are
> > >pre-configured and install/configure automatically?
> >
> > You could try this (although I admit I haven't), available in testing
> > and unstable:
> >
> > Package: fai
> > Priority: extra
> > Section: admin
> > Installed-Size: 1064
> > Maintainer: Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Architecture: all
> > Version: 2.0
> > Depends: bootp | dhcp, perl5, nfs-server, netboot
> > Recommends: tftpd, rsh-server, fai-kernels
> > Suggests: ssh, wget
> > Filename: pool/main/f/fai/fai_2.0_all.deb
> > Size: 283820
> > MD5sum: bdeeca32054f0447aab5c6de28dcab59
> > Description: fully automatic installation
> > FAI is a non interactive system to install a Debian Linux operating
> > system on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on
> > the power and after a few minutes Linux is installed, configured and
> > running on the whole cluster, without any interaction necessary.
> > Homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai
> >
> > --
> > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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> :wq!
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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