OEM hard disk replication

[Chadley Wilson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Brian McKee
> Sent: 03 March 2010 05:15 AM
> To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions
> Subject: Re: OEM hard disk replication
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:45 PM, M. Milanuk <memilanuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/2/2010 6:42 PM, Brian McKee wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Chadley Wilson
> <chadleyw at pinnacle.co.za> wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> This shouldn't happen, A duplicate hard drive should work in any
> >> machine with roughly similar hardware.
> >>
> >
> > Unless the disk UID from the master disk is getting used in
> > /etc/fstab, and thus b0rking any subsequent installations because
> > those disk UIDs don't match...
>
> If the disks are duplicated - the UUIDs are duplicated too!

[>] Ah new linux stuff, I never knew it work liked that, will get back to you shortly...

This is a good lead...

Thanks Gents


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