On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 02:21:35PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to install a number of PC's with an identical (or allmost) > setup. However, I don't want to have to choose the packages I want > to install every time again. So I'm thinking of creating a > iso9660 CD-ROM from the harddisk on one PC and then using the > rescue disk to create a fs on the other PC's and just copy the > contents of the CD to those PC's. Afterwards changing the hostname > of the name should be enough to have it up and running in the network > I figure.
Sounds like a plan :) > However I'm not sure how to make an image of my initial harddisk. > If I simple create an iso9660 image using makeisofs I will probably > loose permissions, ownership and the /dev and /proc directories > wright? Using tar should fix the permissions and ownership but I'm > still not sure what will happen with /dev and /proc. > > Does anybody have any idea how to do this? yes...this sounds like you want to do basically what I do with my tape drive every time I back up. Try this (note: if anything you want is on a differnt mounted partition from / then it must be separatly included) tar clvf filename / then either make an iso9660 image or... I think with linux CD writting tools you can just burn the file right onto the device... thne you could "tar xvf /dev/<cdromdevice>" as for /dev and /proc this will copy /dev properly...but not proc...fortunatly thats what you want... you don't need to copy ANYTHING from /proc/ as an alternative... you can (if you have a network) put this ina directory and get it through the network. Tom's Unix On a FLoppy root-boot disk supports many ethernet cards and all sorts of utilities (all sorts as in..."I don't believe how muhc he got on 1 floppy) you can get it from: http://www.clark.net/~toehser/ -Steve -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
