[Server-devel] Regarding my OLPC XS Wishlist

Martin Langhoff martin.langhoff at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 09:40:48 EDT 2011


On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> On 3 June 2011 21:31, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at activitycentral.org> wrote:
>> btw, did someone try to use cloning paradigm for setting up new school
>> servers instead of using regular install way? Just clonning the system
>> will lest avoid many issues by design.
>
> Do you mean creating an image of a server installation and applying it
> to other machines?
>
> We've done that with the XS-AU (using clonezilla), and I'm pretty sure
> it works with an OLPC XS.

Note that without a script that cleans up config & state, you're bound
to have some fun problems with the resulting systems.

hth,


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