<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:17 AM, <<a href="mailto:larry@daberko.com">larry@daberko.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi, I've been tasked with installing 10 Fedora8 boxes. I plan to make one<br>
master install and copy that to the 9 others. The boxes are all the same<br>
model, if not exactly the same.</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
The master will be installed in the shop, while the copies will be done at<br>
the customer's site. I might have access to a windows laptop if needed.<br>
I may be able to do multiple machines at once if any are available.<br>
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What would you recommend doing in this situation?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I have had good luck with ghost 4 linux. <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l">http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l</a><br>
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I used it with a local FTP server and it was pretty fast for a 40gb drive with about 10gb of data. I have not used it on LVM drives so I don't know how it deals with it. <br><br>It is important to follow the instructions and zero out the drive free space and use the compression for faster imaging.<br>
<br>For the initial test I was able to use filezilla server on a windows desktop but moved to a linux machine in production for the ftp server. <br><br>We were taking about 20 minutes per machine to put the image out and around an our or 2 to make the initial image.<br>
<br>after imaging you will have to make the normal changes to the machines to make them unique.<br><br>-Rob<br>