Lucid OEM install slow - possible to speed up the process?

[Carsten Agger]

Karl Larsen wrote:
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>> One problem with this approach is that it's incredibly slow, much slower
>> than installing from the live CD. Why is that? I suppose it must be more
>> or less the same packages.
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>      You may have used a slow USB stick.
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Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the case as the USB sticks were 
more or less identical. Apparently, the alternate installer is 
inherently much slower than the live install when installing from USB. I 
have no idea why this would be so, am now using the live CD's OEM mode.

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>> And, once oem-config-prepare is scheduled to run, might it be possible
>> to simply replicate the installation by grabbing an image and copying on
>> boot to another, identical computer? In that way one would only have to
>> do the original OEM install once, the rest could be image-replication.
>>
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>      This is exactly what you do in production of many computers with 
> the same software. There are good software to copy one hard drive from 
> another.
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Thanks! Do you know of any, i.e. a name? (Preferably free software)