installation build and test process question - warning, it is dumb.

[bob smith]

You guys have offered some great advice, so I am going to ask a dumb 
sort of question.
I have a machine with all the peripherals - CD, DVD, Frewire,  SATA, 
EIDE, SCSI, USB ports,
and multiple ethers.  I use this as a build and test machine - 
configuring a drive to be installed
in another box.  It is not possible to add more than a minimal drive to 
the target machines.

When I build a drive, configure the apps, test it, and then install it 
in the intended box,
I have to do lots of manual clean up, ethernet device names making them 
match mac
addresses in the configs, and so on.  I am careful about system names, 
ip addresses,
and all that for the application installs.

Is there an easier way to do this? I have tried a few alternatives but 
they still
require post install clean up.  yeah, I am kind of manually going 
through all this,
not quie brute force but close.

thanks for any ideas
bob

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