[OT] System Imaging

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Jesse Proudman wrote:
> I have a particular install of RedHat that I want to store as an
> image and copy to new servers we deploy.  I've got a PXE boot server,
> and that's been working to install over the network, but is there a
> way that I can do a disk format and then copy a disk image without
> having to do a full install?

People typicall go about this in one of two ways:
1) image based, like systemimager or dolly.
 si: http://www.systemimager.org
 dolly: http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/CoPs/patagonia/dolly.html
2) automated installs (like kickstart, autoyast, etc.)

Interpreting your post I'd say start with systemimager.

/Peter

> Jesse Proudman,  Blue Box Group, LLC
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