On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:58:44PM +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: > What is the recommended method to distributing linux images? > > If I have a workstation with a tuned installation and I want to replicate it > to other workstation. The old fashion way is to open the box and physically > copy the disk with ghost. How can I do this without a screwdriver?
The prefered (by me) method is to make a bzip2'ed 2 tar file(s) of the system. Depending upon how many disks you have, how big it is and how much load you want to put on your network, you can burn it on a dvd, mount it with NFS, etc. Most of this can be done easily with a shell script kept in the same place as the tar file. For example: boot a rescue CD. (fedora directory names used). mkdir /mnt/oldimage mount -t nfs system:sharename /mnt/oldimage (partition disk as 3 partitions, 1 boot 32m-100m, 2 swap, 3 rest of disk) mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hda1 mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hda3 mkswap /dev/hda2 mkdir /mnt/new mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/new mkdir /mnt/new/boot mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/new/boot cd /mnt/boot tar xvjf /mnt/oldimage/imagename.tar.bz2 (run grub or lilo) umount /mnt/new/boot umount /mnt/new umount /mnt/oldimage sync sync sync reboot -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
