Andrew Brown wrote:
Things have been going slow for me since I started classes, so sorry
for the sparse updates.
I never did figure out why restoring the mbr and partitions separately
produced an unbootable system, and it's something I'll need to
eventually solve.
However, for now I've taken a step back and just focused on getting
entire drives cloned with dd. Now instead of copying each partition
separately, I just copy all of /dev/sda (or whatever is configured) to
file.
The attached base.cfg kickstart file is attached. I just finished
testing it. It's slow, takes up a lot of space, but it works. I took
an image of a machine, and restored it to another machine with
identical hardware.
Next step is to get the partition by partition copying working, which
is what I was trying to do before. I'll do some tests to try to
figure out what I was missing with my previous approach.
-Andrew
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That's ok, we're chasing lots of random features at the same time, so no
rush on this one. Ultimately we have a pretty good solution now for
supporting foreign OS's by using "cobbler image add" and "koan with
--image" to install ISO's, so we have a route to installing Windows and
foreign OS's in fullvirt that way.
Physical cloning tools would be interesting but I think they are not
nearly as critical (and would be a case where I'd rather see p2v
migration first).
When referring to dd (I imagine over NFS), how slow does slow mean?
Just curious there (I can imagine pretty slow).
Attachment seems to be missing? Can you resend it?
--Michael