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

[sdavmor]

On 04/28/2010 07:31 AM, Carsten Agger wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>       You may have used a slow USB stick.
>>
> 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.
>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>       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.
>>
>>
> Thanks! Do you know of any, i.e. a name? (Preferably free software)

I use the bootable Gparted CD for exactly this purpose.  That way when 
I bring a new store online for one of my customers all the donkey work 
to do with setups that has to be the same everywhere is taken care of 
and I can get on with things.

Go here: <http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php>
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