[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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