Can mondo do this?

[K.C. Chan]

All,
I am currently installing individual boxes of the same type and configuration into the remote field. Is it possible to use mondo to get a golden image of one system that's already configure, then just use the cds to automatically install the rest of the servers? The flavor I am using is RedHat 7.3. Thanks.

[Bill Thorsteinson]

You should be able to script an NFS install using a floppy
or two. Boot the system and
NFS mount the golden image.

I think sfdisk will run a scripted partitioning of the disk. You may need a reboot
after partitioning.

The rest of the install should run mke2fs on the partions.
You can tar partion images and
just untar them from the NFS
mount. Compress the tars
for faster transfer.

If you don't want to use NFS you could burn your install
set to a CD.

The remaining step would be to setup the network.
/etc/HOSTNAME
/etc/hosts
and any other per computer customizations.

[Stefan Marquardt_1]

What is mondo ?
We use a Kickstart server for this.
You only use one boot diskette or CD and all would be installed via network.
Look for bootstring ks=....

[K.C. Chan]

mondo is a software that can take an exact image of you linux box.

I would have gone the kickstart path but we have specific applications and drivers that were developed by us, and we an exact image of the server. The only thing that's different on each server is the hostname and ip.

[Stefan Marquardt_1]

>I would have gone the >kickstart path but we have >specific applications and >drivers that were developed >by us, and we an exact image >of the

You can configure kickstart to get YOUR configuration.
Your kernel your application your drivers ..
I use the preinstall section for it to do that.
That works perfect and i can easy change packets or scripts with editing the ks.cfg.

[Stefan Marquardt_1]

>I use the preinstall section for it to do that.

postinstall of course.