On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Jeff Adams wrote:
>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.
I've been doing this for a project I'm doing where I'm building a Gentoo
appliance type machine.
You'll want to create tarballs of the filesystem, but you'll want to
exclude certain directories:
make an exclude.txt file with the following entries:
/proc
/mnt/.init.d
Then issue the command:
tar -X /path/to/exclude.txt -cpf clone.tar /
That will give you a tarball of your filesystem.
Now using your Gentoo Boot disk boot into the installation and setup your
filesystems (You can use sfdisk to read your old partition table from the
original drive and then write it to the new drive if the drives are
identical). Format those drives, mount them as explained in the install
guide and ftp your tarball over to that disk.
Untar the tarball, then mkdir proc (So you have a place to mount your proc
filesystem) run grub and you are set.
Christopher Fisk
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