you could also use dd and make an image of each drive, thus eliminating the need to do more than issue more than the dd command to write it all to the drive. Of course this is only guaranteed to work because they are identical.
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 21:48, Larry Meadors wrote: > For me, I found it was not worth the time to make it an automated > procedure and just used tar and cfdisk to do it. > > - Boot the good machine using the install CD > - Create a tar of each partition > - Burn the tar files to a CD > > - Boot the next machine using the install CD > - Create the partions > - Untar the files from your good box > - Setup the bootloader (grub in my case) > > Larry > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/17/03 1:34 PM >>> > Hello, > > I have an installation just the way I like it. Now I need to replicate > it > onto 4 other identical machines. > > I'd appreciate input on how best to accomplish this. > > My perfect world scenario would be to be able to create a bootable > installation CD that would do the trick for me. > > Thanks in advance! > > ============== > Jeff Adams > 650-654-4148 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- In 1968 it took the computing power of 2 C-64's to fly a rocket to the moon. Now, in 1998 it takes the Power of a Pentium 200 to run Microsoft Windows 95. Something must have gone wrong. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
