System Image

[Mario Spinthiras]

I dont think what Arthur mentions is "an exact image" . There are a few ways
you can do this. One method which I have used in the past is udpcast , which
effectively works much like Symantec ghost for windows. It clones the source
drive contents over a UDP multicast stream over to the destination device.
It is quite mature , stable and configurable.

Another way it to use systemimager. Personally I haven't tried it but it has
been said that it is very good for large deployments , etc..

If you are looking for the easy way , systemimager is probably easier since
I noticed it has extensive GUIs :)

UDPcast is well documented but if you need something please do not hesitate
to ask.

Regards,
Mario A. Spinthiras
http://www.spinthiras.net/


On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Arthur Johnson <arthur.johnson at gmail.com>wrote:

> I assume your not talking about an exact duplicate, you just want the same
> software correct?
>
> In which case, I've done this on Debian before.  Run the following command
> on the current machine:
>
> # dpkg --get-selections > packages.list.txt
>
> copy packages.list.txt to the new machine, and run:
>
> # cat packages.list.txt | dpkg --set-selections
> # dselect install
>
> The last command I'm not sure about.  dselect doesn't seem to be present on
> Ubuntu without apt-get install dselect.  You might be able to get away with
> substituting "apt-get -f install" instead.
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Chaman Singh Verma <csv610 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have installed Ubuntu on one of my machine and I would like to have
>> exact image ( all the system software,
>> downloaded software) on an another machine. Can someone tell how it should
>> be done ?
>>
>> thanks.
>>  csv
>>
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