well, if these machines are the same exact thing under the hood, what's wrong with doing a kickstart and then pushing out the XFree86 and whatever other config files you need to the machines? -d Michael D. Setzer II said: > I've used the Ghost with Norton 2003, to do disk copies of > computers that are setup with Win98/Fedora in dual boot mode, and it > seems to work fine. With Red Hat 9, it would do the copy, but I would > have to boot from the rescue disk, and login as root, and > change to the grub directory, and run the grub command to reset the > root partition. This can be found at the symantec site, but I don't > have it handly. I have 20 machines in the lab, and setup one > machine, did all updates, and then used a cross-over cable to > connect it to another machine. Then I did multiple copies from those > two to the others, eventually ended have 8 machines ghosting to 8 other > machines all with cross over cables, made it a very fast > process. > > On 15 Apr 2004 at 17:07, Chris Kloiber wrote: > > From: Chris Kloiber <ckloiber@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Date sent: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:07:51 > +0800 > Subject: Re: Duplicating a Fedora PC > Send reply to: For users of Fedora Core releases > <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> > <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > >> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 16:49, Hugh Foster wrote: >> > Bit of a Linux newbie, working up a first Linux box for production >> users - so far, looks pretty good on PC 1 of 2. Now, if this were a >> Windows box, I'd DriveImage it and blat it onto the other, tweak the >> name and logins etc, voila 2 pcs. >> > >> > IS there a way to dupe an installation easily, or do I have to slog >> through all the settings again manually? >> >> If the drives are identical models, dd can do it easily in rescue >> mode. If not, DriveImage may (if it understands ext3, I haven't heard >> of that product before.) and recent Norton Ghost versions do. GNU >> parted may even do this (it can copy/resize partitions) but I haven't >> tried anything that ambitious with it. >> >> -- >> Chris Kloiber >> >> >> >> -- >> fedora-list mailing list >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor > Guam Community College Computer Center > mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.guam.net/home/mikes > Guam - Where America's Day Begins > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > http://setiathome.berkeley.edu > Number of Seti Units Returned: 13,064 > Processing time: 27 years, 286 days, 1 hours, 56 minutes > (Total Hours: 243,386) > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -+(duncan brown -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot
