Re: Cross Installation

[John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org>]

Steve Robson wrote:

> >  
> > We would like, somehow, to do a "cross installation" of Fedora 8. Is 
> > it possible?
>
> Sounds like you just want to "clone" the disk..?  Maybe something like 
> "dump" and "restore"?

I was thinking of
1. Insert preconfigured disk. Assume for discussion it appears at /dev/sde
2. dd if=/dev/sde of=/var/local/embedded.img
3. Remove disk
4 Repeat until done {
 4.a Insert blank disk. Assume for discussion it appears at /dev/sde
 4.b dd if=/dev/var/local/imbedded.img of=/dev/sde
 4.c remove disk
}

This is fairly tedious, but doesn't require actual, immediate, access to 
the hardware and can be done by a low-skilled person (eg the office 
junior). You can also speed things up somewhat by doing several at once.

If these imbedded devices can boot from a network or CD then the whole 
process can be scripted, requiring perhaps no more than plugging into 
the right network and powering up. You could use Anaconda, but for any 
significant number I would not.

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Cheers
John

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