Easy and Quick Imaging Solution
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I want to image half a dozen systems with Fedora! woohoo!
I am able to image them in a completely separate network and I am debating whether I should install them by hand or if I can setup a quick imaging solution. Obviously I dont want anything that is complicated, as my main goal is to save time here.
Hardware is nearly identical.
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Fog.
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This might be more what I am looking to do....
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@dustinb3403 said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:
Fog.
Building a server, setting up DHCP (I would have setup a DCHP Server (pfsense) as well), installing an agent, etc seems like a lot of work for a few systems.
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@irj Clonezilla includes a server in recent versions. I haven't used it in server mode myself yet, but that may be worth looking at.
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@travisdh1 said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:
@irj Clonezilla includes a server in recent versions. I haven't used it in server mode myself yet, but that may be worth looking at.
Linux box with a samba share to upload the base image to, could easily be a raspberry pi with a larger USB drive attached, and then boot the machines to Clonzilla via an USB/CD wouldn't be that bad for the number of machines he referred to.
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@irj said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:
@dustinb3403 said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:
Fog.
Building a server, setting up DHCP (I would have setup a DCHP Server (pfsense) as well), installing an agent, etc seems like a lot of work for a few systems.
It's really not if you can just pass the DHCP to this dedicated network. This is how I had it setup at the last place. DHCP was running from Windows, created a separate lan and had Fog only usable on that LAN.
Was pretty simple and worked really well.
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I guess either way I need to setup a DCHP server.
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@irj said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:
I guess either way I need to setup a DCHP server.
You wouldn't have to with the way I suggested. You would just have to set static IPs for everything. Mine would just need a network in place. Is there no DHCP server where you will do this? Again, a Raspberry Pi could have a Samba Share and run DHCP pretty easily
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During the install of FOG, you can set it up as a DHCP server.
I use to run FOG on a laptop and connected the fog laptop and machines that needed to be imaged to a gigabit switch. -
We do Kickstart installs. It's pretty easy.
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How about using one of the many free imaging programs around (I use Reflect) that let you create a bootable USB, boot up on that, image your master PC.
Copy the image to half a dozen USB drives.
Boot up on the imaging USB and restore the image to the new PCs, make changes as necessary.
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@siringo said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:
How about using one of the many free imaging programs around (I use Reflect) that let you create a bootable USB, boot up on that, image your master PC.
Copy the image to half a dozen USB drives.
Boot up on the imaging USB and restore the image to the new PCs, make changes as necessary.
Does it work well when creating a bootable Linux operating system?
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@black3dynamite said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:
@siringo said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:
How about using one of the many free imaging programs around (I use Reflect) that let you create a bootable USB, boot up on that, image your master PC.
Copy the image to half a dozen USB drives.
Boot up on the imaging USB and restore the image to the new PCs, make changes as necessary.
Does it work well when creating a bootable Linux operating system?
Not sure never tried it, wouldn't be hard to find out I wouldn't think.
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@stacksofplates said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:
We do Kickstart installs. It's pretty easy.
Kickstart with some form of change management tool (ansible?) Would probably be the best bet.
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@coliver said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:
@stacksofplates said in Easy and Quick Imaging Solution:
We do Kickstart installs. It's pretty easy.
Kickstart with some form of change management tool (ansible?) Would probably be the best bet.
Yeah that's what we do. Ansible builds the kickstart configs and PXE boot files from a YAML dictionary that defines all of the systems.
