Because there was a question how exactly can you clone machines with tar and netcat, here’s a short explanation.<\/p>\n
We have machine R – already installed, and machine I, which we want to install.<\/p>\n
1) On machine I we boot a liveCD distribution, like knoppix, partition the drive, make the file systems and the swap.<\/p>\n
2) mount the main file system in \/mnt\/1 (for example), and chdir there.<\/p>\n
3) We start (quickly) one after the other the following commands:
\nOn R: tar cpsf – bin boot cdrom dev etc floppy home initrd lib mnt root sbin tmp usr var |nc -l -p 9988 -w 10
\nOn I: nc -w 10 ip.addr.of.R 9988 |tar cfps –
\nThis does the copying between the machines, and the willing can put a ‘v’ option on either tars, and to watch what’s being copied.<\/p>\n
4) After that’s finished, you can go and fix the configuration of the copies distribution – \/etc\/hostname, \/etc\/hosts, \/etc\/network\/interfaces , etc…, create a \/proc, and then we do a choort \/mnt\/1 \/sbin\/lilo (if you’
\nre using LILO, I can’t remember what was the way with GRUB), and we’re ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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