Disk images with dd

[Antony Gelberg]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Antony Gelberg wrote:
> 
>> Indeed.  You have made a partiton image by the way, not a disk image.
>> dd is not necessarily the best tool for this.
> 
> 
> I could also make a disk image. I don't know if it would work though.
> 
>> systemimager.  You might like it.
> 
> 
> I don't know if I can make SystemImager work with the Ubuntu OEM
> install. Remmeber how the OEM install works:
> 
> 1. The OEM (ie. me) installs the system, gets an 'oem' password and
> finishes whatever other configuration he wants.
> 2. The OEM shuts the coputer.
> 3. When the computer boots next, it should be on the user's desk. It
> asks the user for a username and password and disables the oem account.
> 
> The right time to make the disk image is between (2) and (3). For this I
> need to boot using a rescue disk or a LiveCD. Then I was thinking of
> running dd to make a backup of /dev/hda. I worry that SystemImger might
> not do what I want here. From the documentation it looks like it will
> make an image of the system that the client is running in (ie. the LiveCD).
> 
> I'll take a closer look, but I think that it can't do what I need.

Admittedly I'm tired, but can you remind me why you can't pre-seed the
Ubuntu installer to do what you want?  If the oem install is controlled
by debconf, it should be pre-seedable.

You could then set up the installer and preseed as a network boot.