CentOS - Mar 2010 - centos Installation on Multiple machines

Hi,

I want to install customized centos on multiple systems. Can PXE boot do 
that ? 
Apart from this is there any other way of doing image copy of centos OS 
and installing it on several client machines through network. I used 
clonezilla, but after image cloning, i will again have to use the 
clonezilla LIVE CD on client machine to do a image restore.

I want to make a clone of centos OS and store it in a server and keeping 
installing it on multiple machines with same hardware features from 
network. Is this possible ?

Thanks, 
Premraj M
 
 
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, premrajm at digilink.in wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to install customized centos on multiple systems. Can PXE boot do
> that ?
> Apart from this is there any other way of doing image copy of centos OS
> and installing it on several client machines through network. I used
> clonezilla, but after image cloning, i will again have to use the
> clonezilla LIVE CD on client machine to do a image restore.
>
> I want to make a clone of centos OS and store it in a server and keeping
> installing it on multiple machines with same hardware features from
> network. Is this possible ?
You should look at https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ and kickstart. This will
give repeatable automated installs over a variety of hardware.

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premrajm at digilink.in a ?crit :
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to install customized centos on multiple systems. Can PXE boot 
> do that ?
> Apart from this is there any other way of doing image copy of centos 
> OS and installing it on several client machines through network. I 
> used clonezilla, but after image cloning, i will again have to use the 
> clonezilla LIVE CD on client machine to do a image restore.
>
> I want to make a clone of centos OS and store it in a server and 
> keeping installing it on multiple machines with same hardware features 
> from network. Is this possible ?
>
> Thanks,
> Premraj M
>
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you can also install from a custom usb key
but if you really want to install it from PXE I can't help you :(

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premrajm at digilink.in wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to install customized centos on multiple systems. Can PXE boot do 
> that ?
> Apart from this is there any other way of doing image copy of centos OS 
> and installing it on several client machines through network. I used 
> clonezilla, but after image cloning, i will again have to use the 
> clonezilla LIVE CD on client machine to do a image restore.
> 
> I want to make a clone of centos OS and store it in a server and keeping 
> installing it on multiple machines with same hardware features from 
> network. Is this possible ?
If the hardware is similar enough that you can use clonezilla and you have a lot
of machines, set up drbl to pxe-boot into clonezilla with the server mounted to 
access the image storage: http://drbl.sourceforge.net/.  There's a yum repo
that
works with rhel/centos.  Unlike cobbler, etc., this will also work to clone 
other linux versions and windows.  If the image is small enough, you can also 
build a self-booting DVD that contains clonezilla plus the imagae - or you can 
put them on a bootable USB device.

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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:54 PM,  <premrajm at digilink.in>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to install customized centos on multiple systems. Can PXE boot do
> that ?
> Apart from this is there any other way of doing image copy of centos OS and
> installing it on several client machines through network. I used
clonezilla,
> but after image cloning, i will again have to use the clonezilla LIVE CD on
> client machine to do a image restore.
>
> I want to make a clone of centos OS and store it in a server and keeping
> installing it on multiple machines with same hardware features from
network.
> Is this possible ?
>
> Thanks,
> Premraj M
>
>
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Hello,

Take a look at
http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-a-pxe-install-server-for-multiple-linux-distributions-on-debian-lenny.
You can perform the same DHCP/tftp configurations on a CentOS machine
and deploy multiple machines over the network.

Cheers

You do not "really" need any utils to do this!
Just install it on one machine onto ONE disk, do the "yum update" plus
all the packages you need for the clones.

Then use "rsync -avH source target" to make yourself the other 
copies (using THAT disk) preferable AFTER you booted into RESCUE mode
on the target machine so you have your raid or whatever available.

You can create the partitions while you are in that mode to copy
the stuff into the correct locations or overwrite old directories.

Fix up /etc/fstab to make up for the new partitions on the 
target machine.

Reboot into rescure mode again and do a "mkinitrd PARMS" to setup
the correct boot process and use grub-install to do the same.

done, i do this all the time, new, old and upgrades.

You can do the same with upgrades. Copy the OLD machine onto ONE disk
reflecting the new fstab on THAT disk, put it into another machine
and go into rescue mode to do the "mkinitrd", reboot, boot into 
rescue mode, chroot and do the upgrade. fix up all the errors. 
down the OLD machine, rsync everything you just update across.
reboot into recue mode and do a mkintird and grub-install. done



On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 06:24:02PM +0530, premrajm at digilink.in (premrajm at
digilink.in) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to install customized centos on multiple systems. Can PXE boot do 
> that ? 
> Apart from this is there any other way of doing image copy of centos OS 
> and installing it on several client machines through network. I used 
> clonezilla, but after image cloning, i will again have to use the 
> clonezilla LIVE CD on client machine to do a image restore.
> 
> I want to make a clone of centos OS and store it in a server and keeping 
> installing it on multiple machines with same hardware features from 
> network. Is this possible ?
> 
> Thanks, 
> Premraj M
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