Re: Replicating Linux?

[Steve Scherbinski <sski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you have a SCSI system, you could load the system to a disk, put it and a blank
disk in the SCSI system and use dd to copy the loaded disk onto the blank disk.
I've seen this work on NCR systems.  It may work on copying a system from a running
disk to a blank disk on an IDE system, but it would seem that you would have a lot
of open files and stuff.

You also could have the loaded disk as an exportable NFS drive and use a boot
floppy set to load if over the network.  Good luck.


Adam Williams wrote:

> Does anyone know of a way to install Linux on many machines?  I have about 50
> Compaq Presarios that I need to bring online,  but certainly don't want to go
> through the install and config procedure on every one?  I had an e-mail from
> someone at SUN who had come up with a way to do this by doing a "hard drive
> copy",  but I seem to have misplaced it.  Does SUN use Linux??
>
> Also that nasty ALR box I had seems to be behaving better.  I pulled out the
> 3Com card and put in a Maxtech NE2000 compatible (no a 100M though),  but at
> least it fixed the problem.  The interface (eth0) is up,  but the system errors
> if I try to make a route through it "route add -net 192.168.1.0 eth0"  or any
> similar combination,  I can however "route add -host 192.168.1.4",  and then
> ping the host and that works.  very confusing.  I've never seen this problem
> before.
>
> It looks like I have to do the family thing this Sunday,  so I'll miss yet
> another meeting.  But I'm almost positive I can make the 29th.
>
> Scott,  did you find another ethernet card yet?