OEM hard disk replication

Andrew Farris flyindragon1 at aol.com
Tue Mar 2 17:18:48 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 18:43 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote:
[snip]
> I can duplicate a hard drive at approximately 5 GB per minute using
> our fancy Wytron duplicators. The problem is that the duplicated hard
> disks only work if we plug them into the original machine. What we
> call a master.

Does it give you error messages when you plug the hard drive into the
new computer? I've never actually done this with an OEM install, just
being a user myself, but I've moved harddrives with existing installs on
them to other computers before without problems.

> Now we can’t afford 15 minutes to load each PC from CD or network, as
> our deadlines are far too tight.
[snip]
> If anyone here has accomplished this before, or has successfully
> created an image file and used it on a different PC, please can you
> tell me how you did it?

the only suggestion I can think of is to make sure that on the PCs
you're moving the drives to, make sure that the drives are in the same
BIOS device location (i.e. same port on the hard drive). Some Ubuntu
versions look for the boot partition by it's path, (i.e. /dev/sda) and
can cause issues if BIOS decides to report it as /dev/sdb because you
used a different port. Newer Ubuntu's look for the boot partition by the
UUID, which means that it will boot even if the partitions move around.

Speaking of which, what Ubuntu version are you trying to use?


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Andrew
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