Hi all,
We have installed and customized a F18 system, and it's working great... Now I'd like to take a disk image of it (we use Clonezilla) and then use that image to blow onto other disks we'll use in other systems. So the end result should be 'n' systems, all alike.
I know on other OS's we've used (yes, Microsoft reference coming up) we've had to "sysprep" the system before imaging to remove all the unique identifiers so that when we image the new drives and fire up the machines they get put in, that the systems re-gen the unique ID's and become their own (not just an exact copy of the cloned system.) So I've seen what looks like a GUID string in various places in Fedora (/etc/fstab, grub.cfg, /etc/machine-id) and I'm not sure if this would cause problems on the cloned machines (if they all had the same values.)
Is there any program / script that I can use to perform any needed "prepping" before I take a snapshot of the system to use for cloning? I have found "virt-sysprep", but it looks like it's for cloning VMs - anyone know if it can be used on "real" systems? (see http://libguestfs.org/virt-sysprep.1.html for more info)
Thanks,
Will
We have installed and customized a F18 system, and it's working great... Now I'd like to take a disk image of it (we use Clonezilla) and then use that image to blow onto other disks we'll use in other systems. So the end result should be 'n' systems, all alike.
I know on other OS's we've used (yes, Microsoft reference coming up) we've had to "sysprep" the system before imaging to remove all the unique identifiers so that when we image the new drives and fire up the machines they get put in, that the systems re-gen the unique ID's and become their own (not just an exact copy of the cloned system.) So I've seen what looks like a GUID string in various places in Fedora (/etc/fstab, grub.cfg, /etc/machine-id) and I'm not sure if this would cause problems on the cloned machines (if they all had the same values.)
Is there any program / script that I can use to perform any needed "prepping" before I take a snapshot of the system to use for cloning? I have found "virt-sysprep", but it looks like it's for cloning VMs - anyone know if it can be used on "real" systems? (see http://libguestfs.org/virt-sysprep.1.html for more info)
Thanks,
Will