Paul E Condon wrote:
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:19:38PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote:
I have a Debian system set up on one PC and would like to replicate it onto another (to eventually replace my Redhat 9.0 system.).
What would be the easist way to accomplish this?
1. use an NFS mount of /var/apt/cache/archives/ frommy first Debian system, and enter into /etc/apt/sources.list :
deb file:///<nfs-mount-point>/<path-to-apt-archives> deb-src file:///<nfs-mount-point>/<path-to-apt-archives>
2. use my first Debian system as an ftp server and specify in /etc/apt/sources.list :
deb ftp:/hostname/<path-to-apt-archives> deb-src ftp:/hostname/<path-to-apt-archives>
.... would they work? and even if they did, is there an easier way?
Look at the package apt-proxy. It caches the downloads from debian repositories in a way that fits with using apt-get on a second or third
machine.
use linux-bbc or similar
have both networked
boot both machines from linux bbc
machine 1 = debian build machine 2 = redhat build
fdisk machine 2 so its filesystem layout looks like machine 1
eg
/dev/hda1 = root /dev/hda2 = swap /dev/hda3 = home /dev/hda4 = var
machine 1 boot into linux-bbc bring up the network trivial-network-config mount the local filesystem mkdir /mnt/machine1 (or whatever you like) mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/machine1 mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/machine1/home mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/machine1/var
machine 2
you have booted into linux-bbc bring up the network trivial-network-config
mount the real filesystem
mkdir /mnt/real mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/real mkdir /mnt/real/home mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/real/home mkdir /mnt/real/var mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/real/var
cd /mnt/real
machine 1 cd /mnt/machine1
find . -print0 |cpio --format=crc -0 -o |ssh root@(machine2 ip address) cd /mnt/real \; cpio --verbose -v -i -d
when finished you may have to play with /etc/modules etc to bring up network cards but builds will end up being the same
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