Duplicating a Fedora PC

[duncan brown]

well, if these machines are the same exact thing under the hood, what's
wrong with doing a kickstart and then pushing out the XFree86 and whatever
other config files you need to the machines?

-d


Michael D. Setzer II said:
> I've used the Ghost with Norton 2003, to do disk copies of
> computers that are setup with Win98/Fedora in dual boot mode, and  it
> seems to work fine. With Red Hat 9, it would do the copy, but I  would
> have to boot from the rescue disk, and login as root, and
> change to the grub directory, and run the grub command to reset the
> root partition. This can be found at the symantec site, but I don't
> have it handly. I have 20 machines in the lab, and setup one
> machine, did all updates, and then used a cross-over cable to
> connect it to another machine. Then I did multiple copies from those
> two to the others, eventually ended have 8 machines ghosting to 8  other
> machines all with cross over cables, made it a very fast
> process.
>
> On 15 Apr 2004 at 17:07, Chris Kloiber wrote:
>
> From:           	Chris Kloiber <ckloiber at ckloiber.com>
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>> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 16:49, 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?
>>
>> If the drives are identical models, dd can do it easily in rescue
>> mode. If not, DriveImage may (if it understands ext3, I haven't heard
>> of that product before.) and recent Norton Ghost versions do. GNU
>> parted may even do this (it can copy/resize partitions) but I haven't
>> tried anything that ambitious with it.
>>
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