CentOS - Apr 2005 - Milestone

Well I now have a 4.0 server at a solid checkpoint.  Before I start the 
chore of setting up SAMBA and LDAP.

Part of the delay was I did not copy all of the needed DNS files, and I 
have to reerad the BIND book.

So I want to be able to get to this point again easily.

I did not note down what options I had selected during install.  Is there 
some way in the install log to figure that out?

Is there some way to do an image backup?  I only have a Win2000 server 
available for the backup, no NFS on another system.

Appreciate any and all help.


Barrs Law of Recursive futility
         If you're smart enough to use one of these....
                 .....you can probably manage without one!

Do you have access to a FTP server?  If so there is a nice project out
there, G4U, that does a good job of imaging systems.

Boot from the G4U floppy or CD and pass a command or two......

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

Andrew

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Well I now have a 4.0 server at a solid checkpoint.  Before I start the
chore of setting up SAMBA and LDAP.

Part of the delay was I did not copy all of the needed DNS files, and I
have to reerad the BIND book.

So I want to be able to get to this point again easily.

I did not note down what options I had selected during install.  Is there
some way in the install log to figure that out?

Is there some way to do an image backup?  I only have a Win2000 server
available for the backup, no NFS on another system.

Appreciate any and all help.


Barrs Law of Recursive futility
         If you're smart enough to use one of these....
                 .....you can probably manage without one!


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Quoting Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>:

<SNIP>
> I did not note down what options I had selected during install.  Is there
> some way in the install log to figure that out?
<SNIP>

You can look at /root/anaconda-ks.cfg .. this is a kickstart file that was
generated from your install.  If you needed to rebuild this machine you could
copy this file to a DOS/FAT/VFAT formatted floppy as the name ks.cfg and boot
off of Disc 1 with this floppy in your drive and when it comes to the boot
prompt type "text ks=floppy" which will instruct the installer to use
the text
mode installer and use a file called ks.cfg off of the first floppy drive.

If you use this method, please read the ks.cfg file first to understand what it
is doing.  Also, I believe it will list as comments your drive partitioning, so
if you were to use this kickstart file it would not repartition your disk unless
you uncomment those lines.

Hope this helps,
Barry

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I did not note down what options I had selected during install.  Is 
> there some way in the install log to figure that out?
Check the file /root/anaconda-ks.cfg.  This is kickstart configuration 
file that was generated based on your choices during the install.  You 
can use it to perform completeley automatic installation of the server. 
  All you would do is copy the file to floppy disk and name it ks.cfg, 
boot from first CD, and on boot prompt type "linux ks=floppy" (this is
just one method, ks.cfg can be also stored on USB stcik, CD ROM, or on 
the network).

Or you can modify it and use to install some other server.  Check 
documentation at:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/

In particular this chapter that explains what kickstart installations 
are, options for creating kickstart configuration file, and what options 
are available:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-kickstart2.html

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Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Is there some way to do an image backup?  I only have a Win2000 server 
> available for the backup, no NFS on another system.
These two projects might interest you..

http://www.partimage.org
http://www.mondorescue.org/about/about.html