Installation

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Hi,

I have Installed Redhat Linux Distributation on a machine and installed project specific applications. Now i would like to install 10+ more machine which the same configuration.

So, Is there any simple way to replicate the configuration. Is there any software which takes the dump of the current system to CD/DVD and use the CD to install the rest of the machine?

thanks in advance.

thanks
C

[Alexander Chuzhoy · Accepted solution]

Since all applications are already installed/configured IMHO you should make image of your machine (with "ghost" for example) and distribute it with "ghost" to other machines.
If you would do some planning before installing the first station and if you have a shared place, where you can place all the installation files - you could specify all the postinstallation steps in the %post section of the kickstart file and you could use kickstart to install the same configuration on all machines. All required RPMS and system configurations are already listed in the /root/anakonda-ks.cfg file.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Options.

kickstart - use the installation record of the first system to replicate to others.

Ghost for Linux, slow but it duplicates a system disk to disk.

acronis - costs money faster and more flexible than Ghost 4 Linux.

http://www.mondorescue.org

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thank you for the quick respone.