[ale] Copying entire machines

[Patrick Ramsey]

<grin>  Yes... my supposedly "identical" compaqs I am cloning were obviously manufactured at different time frames.  1 out of 5 (with the exact same specs) has a hard drive from a different manufacturer than the original.
arghh.... needless to say, I have to install linux from scratch on each of these machines.. (I'm using Norton Ghost) Really tight compression and supports cloning of multiple machines at the same time.

-Patrick

>>> Adam Teja <arteja at yahoo.com> 06/11 3:06 PM >>>
We use Quarterdecks DiskClone... in raw write mode to
clone our Linux servers. The only limitation that
this has is it the disks have to be of the same
geometry (heads, cyls, etc...)

regards,
Adam

--- Michael at celery.atl.mediaone.com wrote:
> > Anyone know of a quick and easy way to copy a
> Linux setup to an identical
> > machine? (multiple machines actually) 
> > 
> > I have tried ghost and it seems to work fine until
> you reboot... then all I
> > get is a "LI" when LiLo attempts to load. 
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Or is there a way I can manually fix the "LI"
> problem after I ghost each
> > machine?  I am assuming lilo is not finding the
> boot information.  Does this
> make sense? 
> 
> Don't know what "ghost" is, but it sounds like it
> copies everything from one
> disk to another.
> 
> I would make a boot flopply (which uses the HD as
> root--so only the kernel is
> on the floppy) and boot the new machine once.  Now
> run lilo on the new machine
> and toss out the floppy (okay, just set it aside
> until you know it works).
> 
> --Michael
> 

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