On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:40:15 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ons, 26.01.2005 kl. 21.19 skrev Nicolas Mailhot: > > Le mercredi 26 janvier 2005 à 11:04 -0800, cfk a écrit : > > > Gentlemen: > > > > > > I have a situation where I need to make a number of identical computers all > > > with the same fedoraCore2. > > > > > > I have tried putting a second (hdb) disk, doing a "df" on hda and based on > > > the number of 1024 blocks going: > > > > > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024 count=<TheNumberDfShows> > > > > > > and it blinks the light a long time and then croaks. > > > > > > I know I did something similar to this a couple of years ago on a different > > > project. Can someone tell me where I am going awry and perhaps educate me a > > > little bit more. > > > > If you can setup an nfs or ftp/http server somewhere the fastest method > > is network install via kickstart (using pxe if you can) > > > > It might take a little longer to setup but you'll make up the time very > > fast. And if you do not have exactly the same hardware (same components > > & firmware versions) it's way safer. > > or you could do the setup you said, just use dd to copy te stuff over. > Just boot it off a cdrom. > Don't use dd for this. If you have different size hard drive, partition or something else down the line, it can really mess you up. I would recommend a simple tar or rsync command to copy them over. This is if you wish to do copy machine to machine. Otherwise a custom kickstart file with pxe is a lot easier if done right. -- Christopher Hotchkiss (813)960-9273 http://www.post227.org
