[lug] Creating installation disks?

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Fri Aug 23 15:52:43 MDT 2002


partimage may also be useful.  Depending on what you're trying to do. 
If all the drives are the exact same hardware...

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 14:32, Scott Herod wrote:
> Thanks for the note Alan.  
> 
> I've actually got a couple of pages in front of my about SystemImager, 
> which is part of the suite.  It was on my list of things to look at 
> next.  (I'm trying to figure out a few different methods to do this and 
> am currently working on getting an install disk going.  The most basic 
> method of course is "use dd" but that requires finding a screwdriver.) 
>  Looking more at the webpage, http://www.sisuite.org/ , perhaps the 
> System Installer does everything that I need.
> 
> Scott
> 
> Alan Robertson wrote:
> 
> > Scott Herod wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I need to create an installation image and was wondering if people 
> >> could give me a couple of pointers of how to get started.
> >>
> >> I have a golden disk-drive that I want to be able to clone quickly.  
> >> I think that the easiest way would be to build a bootable CD that can 
> >> serve as an installation disk.  I've managed to get a bootable ISO 
> >> image burnt to a CD by following the directions on 
> >> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html .  I've also 
> >> looked at kickstart and have the beginnings of a configuration file.
> >>
> >> What do I need to do next?  I would like to push everything into a 
> >> ISO file initially so that I can check it before I start making 
> >> silver coasters.  I think that I will create a giant tar of my golden 
> >> drive's root partition and use kickstart's scripting ability to copy 
> >> it to a partiton that I create on a new drive, but what else will I 
> >> need to do so that for example /boot is installed?
> >
> >
> > I would look at SIS (System Installation Suite).  It does exactly what 
> > you want, except it generally works over the network.  It also works 
> > for any linux distro.
> >
> >     -- Alan Robertson
> >        alanr at unix.sh
> >
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