remaster ubuntu alternate

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Tue Jul 3 06:32:42 UTC 2012


On 3 July 2012 03:14, Amaury VH <avhernandez at uci.cu> wrote:
> On 07/02/2012 12:24 PM, compdoc wrote:
>>>
>>> I would install one machine, customise it as desired, then image its disk
>>
>> and copy that image onto the other units' hard disks.
>>
>> I've done this. But there are a couple of things to watch for:
>>
>>
>> * All clones will use the same UUID for their swap and data partitions.
>> Easy to change, but requires you update grub after.
>>
>> * All clones will have the same hostname, so use a hostname that wont
>> conflict with another machine, and change it later.
>>
>> * All clones will have the same ssh host keys if you install
>> openssh-server
>>
>>
>> And there may be other things that will need tweaking depending on what
>> you
>> install. If there were some script or program that installed your programs
>> on a fresh install, that would be nice.
>>
>>
>>
> and the other thing, when you copy the disk to another machine, you need to
> delete the network rules(rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persisten.net.rules) and
> many others

If that is correct then how is it that I can take a disk from one
machine and move it to another and it works ok, without having to
touch that file?

Colin




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