OEM hard disk replication

[NoOp]

On 03/02/2010 08:43 AM, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Really stuck, will try and be descriptive a short so that you
> understand my situation.
> 
> I work for a major South African PC manufacturer, and I have been
> trying to play with the OEM boot option. With no success! :)
> 
> I can duplicate a hard drive at approximately 5 GB per minute using
> our fancy Wytron duplicators. The problem is that the duplicated hard
> disks only work if we plug them into the original machine. What we
> call a master. Now we can't afford 15 minutes to load each PC from CD
> or network, as our deadlines are far too tight.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingUUID

> 
> Is there a  tool, a read me or something in the Ubuntu arsenal of
> gadgets that can get my next 5000 computers loaded with Ubuntu using
> disk duplication and hard disk imaging. If anyone here has
> accomplished this before, or has successfully created an image file
> and used it on a different PC, please can you tell me how you did
> it?
...

I think I mentioned this sometime ago to you... I'll throw it out again;
why not look to Canonical for assistance?

http://www.ubuntu.com/partners
 http://www.canonical.com/partners/faq
  http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/programmetracks
   http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/hardwareprogramme
    http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/IHV
<http://www.ubuntu.com/system/files/u53/system%20builders%20datasheet%20OEM%20Services%20Linux%20Enablement%204%20page%20summary.pdf>