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| == Multiple systems ==
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| <p>I have multiple machines that I maintain but I want to use a central system to manage them.</p>
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| <p>I also maintain several systems in separate partitions on some machines.</p>
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| <p>The multiple machine problem is managad by building a 'thumb' drive with complete installation scripts:
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| #Boot a standard distribution disk
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| #Mount the 'thumb' drive
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| #Run a script from the 'thumb' drive for that machine and partition to set up the system.<br/>Problems:
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| #*Configuring the network
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| #*Assuring the correct partitions exist
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| #**Some of the partitions will be for 'foreign' systems by microsoft, apple, red hat and so on...
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| #*Creating/Cleaning up the file system on selected partions
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| #**External identification
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| #***Partition labels
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| #***UUIDs
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| #**Internal identification - special files in 'root', starting with 'blank'
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| #***' LABEL=...'
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| #***' UUID=...'
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| #***' DEVICE=...' (must be verified/reset during 'boot') | |
| #*Standard mount points and build 'fstab' entries
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| #**from a machine configuration file on the thumb drive
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| #**include an 'own root' symbolic link for consistancy of reference
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| #**an 'onboot' directory tree to maintain access to directories under mount points
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| #*Initial file population - copy selected files from the 'thumb' drive
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| #*'sync' the system to current levels
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| #'chroot' to the newly installed system partition and run more scripts from the 'thumb' drive
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| #*incomplete at this time
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| #NOTE: This process may be interupted/aborted by errors at different points and has to allow for correction/restart.
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| </p>
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| <p>Multiple system partitions use pieces from the multiple machine solution using 'chroot'.</p>
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| === Help building tools ===
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| <p>Can you guys/gals identify hook points where the above outline could make use of the profile system?</p>
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| <p>'''Could the profile system be extended to allow easy configuration for multiple system?'''</p>
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| --[[User:Mtew|Mtew]] ([[User talk:Mtew|talk]]) 05:07, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
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