On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 18:07, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > What's the easiest way to, after a system gets setup (FC3 installed > fresh on the drive), "replicate" it across other machines with the same > hardware? Basically I want to end up with several machines with the > same setup and programs. If the hard disks are identical, you can do a complete image copy which will take the boot setup, partitioning et. along. This is really easy with servers that have swappable drive carriers, but you can also do it over the network. I usually boot a knoppix CD because it detects most hardware and comes up with the network running. Start an sshd server on the master, then from the clone machine do something like: ssh master_ip_address dd if=/dev/hda |dd of=/dev/hda (appropriate disk names, of course). Go to lunch - it will take a while. Repeat if more than one drive is involved. Boot the new machine up and change it's name and ip address. If the drives aren't identical you can do approximately the same by partitioning/formatting the new drive yourself, then copying via tar to the new locations, but in this case you have to make the disk bootable yourself. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx