[Wylug-help] Creating disk images

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> I would normlly do this by an automated or scripted install.  Disk
> images has a rather different meaning, although in the windows world I
> believe the 2 concepts are confused.

Indeed.

> Fedora (or a RedHat derived distribution, and I also believe Ubuntu) you
> would do with kickstart.
>
> This is documented best in the RHEL documentation, but is identical for
> Fedora, and can be found in the sections under here:-
>  http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/pt-install-info.html
>
> or look at the system-config-kickstart tool and documentation for a GUI
> front end to building the configuration file - however you probably need
> to at least look at the other stuff to work out how it hangs together.

So that's the scripted install covered.

Here's the 'image' install option.

http://wiki.sisuite.org/

Basically install a machine up how you want it, take an image of it and either
put in on a networked image server or make a CD/DVD and use that to replicate.

jh

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