Re: Replicating Linux?

[Scott Yellig <syellig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Im not sure exactly what sun ment by a 'hard drive copy'. But, if you dont
mind tearing all the hard drives out and sticking them in the 
installed and configured machine one by one, then you can do that. Basicly
you would tar up / on the already setup machine.
This would probably go soemthing like this:

	cd /tmp
	tar -zpcvf /tmp/root.directory.tgz / --exclude /tmp --exclude /proc

This SHOULD (im running sans man pages at the moment, so you might want to
check) tar up everything up /tmp and /proc in a file called
/tmp/root.directory.tgz

Then, throw the other disk in there. mkfs -t ext2 it, and mount it under
/mnt To put the other filesystem on it you would:

	cd /mnt
	tar -zpxvf /tmp/directory.tgz

you would have to go through physically removing, installing and mkfs'ing
the hard disk from every machine to do that (setup partitions, and mount
them in the correct relative position as well, if you use more than just
one big partition)

with any luck the 'p' arg in those tar lines will preserve the file
permissions, and allow the system to actually operate ones everyhting is
copied.

I hope this works. Another option would be a tape backup, if you have tape
drives on all the machines.
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As for your network problem, i really have no idea. Also, no, I havent
really had time to look for another card (i was in dallas for 2 days, im
failing a class, and i have 3 huge projects to do over break.. things like
that.)

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On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, 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?
>