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I am working for a company, I have to install Ubuntu on my clients, and everytime I have to install it, I have to download software, install it, configure samba ... etc etc etc.
So I was thinking that maybe I could do that on 1 machine only and,.... some how.... "PASTE " that modified Ubuntu in other machines
You install any Ubuntu-8.04-9.04/Debian-Lenny, configure everything, then do remastersys backup
and bam you have a livecd/usb that can be installed via Ubquity installer
But, you want 2 things:
1) A pre-configured system
2) The ability to "clone" that hd install to other PC's without? having
to use the installer?
Meaning; you want to simply clone an install into other PC's?
I think you can use Clonezilla to do this; but I have never used it... http://clonezilla.org/
So I was thinking that maybe I could do that on 1 machine only and,.... some how.... "PASTE " that modified Ubuntu in other machines
I think what you might be looking to do is "image" your HDD and "restore" it to other machines. You can use a specialized LiveCD for this (such as Clonezilla), or you can use the dd command (from a regular distro LiveCD; you won't be able to do this while your existing file system is mounted) to create an image file that you can then dd again to the destination drive.
Example:
Code:
Create the image:
dd if=/dev/(HDD device name here) of=/home/hdd_image.img
"Restore" image to a HDD:
dd if=/home/hdd_image.img of=/dev/(HDD device name here)
EDIT: linus72 got to it first...his links are better.
I would go with dd if'n that works as it would be easier I think?
Yes, dd would probably be easier. I've only had to do a clone/restore once, when my HDD was going bad. I didn't know about dd at the time, though, so I found Clonezilla. Reasonably easy; it pretty much walks you through the whole thing, but in retrospect dd probably would've been quicker.
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