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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

Hi, I want to clone my hardisk containing the centos-5.3 OS and its swap region on to new raw hardisk via network either through ssh, tftp or ftp. How do i do that ? Is there any Tool for that or will DD command be sufficient.I know that dd command will have to be used on hardisk with already existing partitions and not on raw disk. Regards, Premraj M Disclaimer : This message is

Hi, I have x86 system and have used clonezilla to clone the entire hardisk of system A and restored it on another x86 system, system B. After the cloning process, i notice that the MAC address of the system B in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 is changed and is having the MAC address of system A. The interesting part is that if i do an ifconfig from the bash prompt, the MAC

Hi, On Centos-5.3, is it possible to capture an interrupt when the reset button on the Supermicro Box is pressed ? Regards, Premraj M Disclaimer : This message is proprietary to Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged or confidential information and should not be circulated or used for any purpose

Hi , I wanted to know about any commercial support for centOS 5.3 like kernel customization and others from centOS community or developers. Please provide information on the same Regards, Premraj M Disclaimer : This message is proprietary to Smartlink Network Systems Limited and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged or

Hi, On Centos is it possible to read the processor ID from any File ? Regards, Premraj M Disclaimer : This message is proprietary to Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged or confidential information and should not be circulated or used for any purpose other than for what it is intended. If you have

Hi, I am trying to build busybox for the centos-5.3,but facing issues in installing the busybox executable into the centos filesystem. Is it possible to build a busybox for a server platform (x86) with centos. Thanks and Regards, Premraj Disclaimer : This message is proprietary to Smartlink Network Systems Limited and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is

Hi, Iam using cento-5.3 on x86 machine and iam working to get the console messages redirected to serial port. I have made the necessary changes in the /etc/inittab file. - - - - - id:3:initdefault . . so:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 9600 vt100 - - - -- - and also in /etc/grub.conf file - - - - serial --speed=9600 --unit=0 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal --timeout=10 serial . .

Hi, I wanted to install the ghostscript for ps2pdf support. I wanted to know the required rpms for this and also the order of installation. As of now i don't have this support on my system. Please provide me with information on this. Disclaimer : This message is proprietary to Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. It

Hi, I have customized my centos Installation and removed the vitalization, Cluster and storage cluster support along with GUI support.I have enabled only server related packages. Regarding serial console redirection,I have checked my serial cable,Ports and inittab and grub.conf configuration.Everything seems to be correct.I wanted to know that is it necessary to have a xen kernel

Hi, Iam working on centos - 5.3 and would want some information on 1. Disabling the bash prompt and running customized CLI (command line interface). 2. Enabling the bash prompt again. Is it possible to redirect the entire console message to serial port. ? Thanks and Regards, Premraj M Sr.Software Engineer Tel: +91-080-67274900 Cell: +91-9741231739 Email: premrajm at digilink.in

Hi, I would like to have a software protection for my hardisk. I have some query regarding that (1) In Centos, is it possible to do a hardisk protection. Ex : Even if the hardisk is taken from a PC and used on another PC, it should not be executable. (2) Also if the entire binary of the source is mounted on a partition say /tmp, is it possible to make that mount point as protected,

Hi all, I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, gotchas', warnings or whatever? Thanks. -- BW,

On 2014/3/7 ?? 05:23, Gene Cumm wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Bryan Romine <bromine1027 at gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry for the confusion, I am actually using 6.02. It turns out that I was >> trying to use the 32-bit efi binary to load 64-bit kernels. I switched to >> using "syslinux64.efi" but it hangs during boot, just before loading the >>

Does anyone have any good how-to's or documentation on setting up read only root NFS for pxe booting diskless computers? A few months ago I stumbled upon an official Redhat doc through a google search(not hosted by redhat and I cannot find it anywhere on the Redhat site) written by Dave Kline named "Configuring diskless clients with Red Hat Enterprise Linux" from 2011. It seemed to

This is the best collection of minds I can think of on this topic, that's why it is on this list. I think it is too subjective for stackoverflow. So here is the problem: The community center has multiple computers for the children (and adult students) to use. These computer are always donated and the hardware is all different. Currently the systems are running Windows (but this may change).

Hi I am trying to clone harddrive eg: centos, freebsd, openbsd..... any ima ge software suggestion for different os Thank you Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

Hallo, I'm just trying to boot a Clonezilla *.iso (live-20100521-lucid) via PXE; Label clonezilla kernel memdisk append iso raw initrd iso/clonezilla.iso The first step is ok - I see the boot menu of the *.iso. When I choose "Clonezilla live" the system fails with Isolinux: Disk error 02, AX = 4224, drive E0 when I choose "freedos" it fails with

In the past I have used clonzilla under xen to backup windows domains. I just tried it and it will not work. this is xen 4.1.2 and clonzilla-live 1.2.10-14 the disk line is: disk = [ ''phy:/dev/xvg0/nfdlts-c,hda,w'', ''file:/extra/isoimages/clonzilla.iso,hdc:cdrom,r'' ] It boots cd OK. The problem is devices are xvda not hda and clonzilla is not happy with

I want to clone a small (80GB) disk on my CentOS server to a large (1.5TB) disk, as smart has been giving me warnings of unreadable sectors. Both disks are Western Digital, and WD has a WD version of Acronis True Image. I'm not sure whether to use this or Clonezilla. My worry with Acronis is that I want to keep the original disk, and I'm not sure from the documentation if True Image