A different way of installing Fedora

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Thu Sep 26 17:12:22 UTC 2013


On 09/26/2013 09:51 AM, Eric Blake issued this missive:
> On 09/26/2013 10:43 AM, John Morris wrote:
>>
>> The big one is to
>> touch /etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules and
>> 75-cd-aliases-generator.rules if you still use optical media.  If
>> cloning you should be sure to clear out the key material in /etc/ssh to
>> allow the clones to generate their own keys.  Then do
>
> virt-sysprep is a great tool for doing all of the neutering necessary
> when cloning images.  It was originally designed for VM image clones,
> but works just as well on bare metal disk images for your use case.

Uh, silly of me, but isn't this what things like puppet and its kin are
for? We do a lot of deployments using puppet.
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