[TriLUG] making a disk image

[Mike Johnson]

M. Mueller (bhu5nji) [bhu5nji at yahoo.com] wrote:
> I just loaded 3 identical machines using the conventional installer and then 
> sequences of ftp, make/install, rpm, tar xzvf.  Tedious.

SystemImager rocks.  We can load twenty boxes at the same time in about
five to ten minutes.  I'm sure we can go higher, but that's about as
many as we've ever tried.

We can then point at a different image and reload those same boxes.
It's great for testing.

Note:  this requires decent networking equipment.  We had one switch
that just couldn't handle the load (the installs would be real slow),
but once we switched to a better switch, it's all good.

Mike
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