Generic image for VMWare
 

Greetings,

Kind of an open question but I thought I'd give it a shot. We need to create a "golden" or generic image as a template to VMWare so we can deploy test servers quickly. I can create a template in VMWare but it's a duplicate of the system I made it from. How do I "unconfigure" the template system so that it goes to the installation screen to input things like host name, I/P address and so on?

Thanks

Can I suggest that "gold images" kinda suck? If you just spend a day setting up cobbler it can let you build servers properly from scratch in a few minutes using kickstarts. There is no need at all to use the cobbler system to manage this - you can very easily just put a kickstart file and installation media on a server, but I'd very strongly suggest you do. gold images are pants. It really can be *much* quicker to build from scratch (deploy 300mb of files) than image (clone 20gb of image)

kickstart is RHEL right? What about SuSE?

Sorry for the noob question

For Suse you can use autoyast.