mirror OpenSUSE installation

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#1

Hello everyone,

I’m new to networking but I have to install and maintain 8 workstation network at my Faculty. I would like to automate the installation process - I’ve installed everything I need on one workstation, and now I want to mirror this installation over the LAN.
The main reason for doing this is tons of other applications we use for CAD/CFD/CCM/CAE I’ve built, and don’t want to rebuild on each node.

I’ve found this link:

mirror a linux installation

where it is written:

“… certain distributions (such as SUSE) files are created with MAC addresses in their path… In this case, you might have to fix things manually.”

in case I use tar command to create a copy of the filesystem over the network. My other option is to copy the data byte-by-byte which takes much longer. I need advice on this question, I’ve searched the forum and googled - but nothing regarding fore mentioned MAC adress problem with SUSE and tar.

Thank you in advance,
Tomislav

#2

In some older versions of SUSE, the config files for the eth interfaces was named after the mac address, e.g. ifcfg-eth-01:23:45:67:89:ab or something like that. Since udev has become standard, this has now changed to an entry in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules that contains the MAC address. So you will have to reconfigure the network in the clone.

#3

Thank you for the advice. Now I know where I stand. I’ll try and mirror everything with tar and then reconfigure the network.

Tomislav