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Old 08-02-2006, 02:53 AM   #1
richearle
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Duplicating a Linux System Disk rapidly (ie. ghosting a HDD)


The guy left and now I'm holding the baby !. I have to create many Linux system hard drives, one for each unit we make. We have a good image of a Linux system in the form of a Norton Ghost image file. The instructions I'm left with involve running Norton Ghost from a CD on a dedicated machine to create every new hard drive. Problem is this Norton thing takes at least 30 minutes to create each drive and you have to sit there answering questions etc. It often goes wrong! Need a quick easy way to create a basic Linux system disk with networking, then I can just plug the unit into our network and have it drag all the software and files it wants off our main server when it starts up for the first time during it's testing cycle.

If anyone knows a nice simple quick way to duplicate/create a basic Linux (Debian) HDD with networking starting from a new vigin harddrive with no partitions I would be very interested to know - hopefully not involving Norton Ghost

Even if I have to use Norton Ghost, why does it have to be in two partitions, one called base.v2i and the other called swap.v2i ? What's that all about ?

Cheers - Rich
 
Old 08-02-2006, 03:56 AM   #2
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If would suggest looking at SystemImager if the hardware and deployment and more or less the same. The transfer speed will of course be dependent on the network speed. You could also use the dd command or the Linux verison of ghost - Partimage.

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