[Server-devel] Regarding my OLPC XS Wishlist

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 4 June 2011 00:00, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at activitycentral.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 09:40:48AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Do you mean particular script, which one?

You'll need to clean up:

    /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (delete the lines that
refer to all the eth devices)
    /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* (remove the HWADDR line)
    ssh keys (/etc/ssh/ssh_host_*)
    postgresql server.crt

Info: http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/422

Sridhar