Duplicating a Fedora PC

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:56:51PM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> 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. 

I gather the machines in your lab are not normally networked. How
about using a USB 2.0 drive?

You may find my "Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO" useful for
this as
well.
http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html
Inter alia, my scripts will run grub for you. You can add a call to
ifconfig to the build scripts.

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