> Perhaps this would be of interest in CURRENT issues:
>
>
> We have several servers that we plan on deploying across the US. Their
> purpose in life is network status and monitoring. The hardware profiles
> are exactly the same...
>
> Currently, we're using DD to mirror a disk image onto a new installation,
> and them nanually tweaking all the necessary configurations. It's
> tedious, and is going to get hellish with the amount we plan on deploying.
A much faster way to do this is to just dd the first few megabytes of
the disk (dd if=foo of=/dev/rXXd bs=32768 count=1024). Then use
dump | restore to populate the disk. (We actually have 3.x and 4.x
recent build filesystems that are built weekly on a master loading
machine just for this purpose.)
We mass produce system disk this way and it is much faster than a whole
disk image operation especially when dealing with drives much larger than
2G bytes.
> I'm wondering if there might not be a way to streamline this install
> process, such that a boot floopy and script could be created to take a
> minimum amount of information, and then "do the right thing" as for the
> install. Things like putting in the packet filters, the kernel, IP
> config, etc.
>
> Surely someone has done this before...?
We do it on a weekly basis, 4 to 32 disks at a time...
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Hope this gives you some ideas...
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