How to deploy a Linux Image?

[carmelolopez]

Hi , I would like to Deploy a Linux CentOS 6 image to multiple computers.
Does anybody knows if Casper can Handle this?
If not, any tool I could use?

Many thanks
Carmelo

[jarednichols]

Is this into a VM of some sort?

[carmelolopez]

No, The idea is to deploy to 32 machines hardware and not VM remotely.

[mm2270]

I don't think you can do this from Casper. Its for deploying OS X or Windows into Boot Camp. Never heard of anyone deploying a bootable Linux image to Macs with it. There may be some equivalent tools, but don't know of any.

[rob_potvin]

haven't played with it yet http://www.clonezilla.org

you could create your linux partition, and copy across your linux image (created with dd) and as a post install script you dd to copy your image to the partition and then do a clean up. with dd though you have the full size of what you captured... so could be big, might need to compress it with tar, move it over to the machine uncompress, then copy via dd then cleanup

capture

dd if=/dev/disk of=file

restore

dd if=file of=/dev/disk

more info

man dd

hope that helps

[carmelolopez]

Hi,

We have tried Clonezilla. The problem is that it must act as DHCP server as well as BootP.
We want to use our internal DHCP server and have a tool that only acts as BootP Server and not DHCP server.
Thanks
Carmelo