On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:52:58PM -0400, Daniel Barowy wrote:
> 
> The reality is that our novice administrators rarely do any real
> server deployment-- it's really just me and another guy-- so when it
> comes down to it, this is just a time-saving measure for us.  The
> genesis of it was from doing this with CF onto Soekris or other SBCs
> where actually doing an install directly onto the CF is a PITA (do
> the install in a VM, then dd the VM's disk).  It doesn't need to be
> simple as long as it saves time and errors.  So I think I will
> indeed look into ideas like yours.  I like Chris Dukes' suggestion
> to replace baseXX.tgz and use the installer, since unlike Soekris
> boxes, these machines have CD readers and video hardware.

I also keep toying with the idea of an ugly little 'C'
program that reads the source page by page.  If the page is null,
it does a seek instead of a write on the target.

As for your soekris deploy method, I wonder if just telling the
VM that the block device for the CF is the disk would suffice.

-- 
Chris Dukes

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