Duplicating a Fedora PC

[Michael D. Setzer II]

Being relatively new to linux, I'm not aware of what kickstart is. Will 
look into it, but I've used ghost since before Norton bought it. Also, 
using the ghost and cross over cables, I can get installs of both the 
window and linux partitions in less time than it takes to do an install 
of Linux. 

On 15 Apr 2004 at 10:44, duncan brown wrote:

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> 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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> > <fedora-list at redhat.com> Date sent:      	Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:07:51
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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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