Cross Installation

[Steve Robson]

> Subject: Cross Intallation
> From: "Trung Chu-vu" <trungdatamovies at orange.fr>
> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 17:22:05 +0200
> To: <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> 
> Hello,
>  
> We have an embedded system, based on PC cards and a hard disk, which 
> will have to run without the use of keyboard, mouse or DVD-driver.
>  
> We have managed to install Fedora 8 on it. For that, we plugged a 
> keyboard, a mouse and a DVD driver on this embedded machine, and we 
> followed the Fedora installation process.
> At the end of the installation, we retrieved the anaconda-ks.cfg file 
> generated by anaconda.
>  
> Now, we want to industrialize the configuration for those machines.
> To do so, we would like to install and configurate Fedora on the hard 
> disk of those machines directly from a PC, plugging the hard drive with 
> an USB rack.
> This way, we won't need our embedded machine anymore to do our installation.
>  
> We would like, somehow, to do a "cross installation" of Fedora 8. Is it 
> possible?

Sounds like you just want to "clone" the disk..?  Maybe something like 
"dump" and "restore"?

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   Regards,
   Steve

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