Duplicating a Fedora PC

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Thu Apr 15 12:16:09 UTC 2004


On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:49:32AM +0100, Hugh Foster wrote:
> Bit of a Linux newbie, working up a first Linux box for production users -
> so far, looks pretty good on PC 1 of 2. Now, if this were a Windows box, I'd
> DriveImage it and blat it onto the other, tweak the name and logins etc,
> voila 2 pcs. 
>  
> IS there a way to dupe an installation easily, or do I have to slog through
> all the settings again manually?

"g4u ('ghost for unix') is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that
allows easy cloning of PC harddisks to deploy a common setup on a
number of PCs using FTP. The floppy/CD offers two functions. First is
to upload the compressed image of a local harddisk to a FTP
server. Other is to restore that image via FTP, uncompress it and
write it back to disk; network configuration is fetched via DHCP. As
the harddisk is processed as a image, any filesystem and operating
system can be deployed using g4u."

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

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