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Hello, |
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Background: |
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I've been building firewall for friends out of old pentiums and |
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amd machines for some time now. I have successfully switch to |
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compact Flash 4 G drive, using a CF to ide converter. |
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Now I need to be able to store a generic install on a machine, plug |
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in a new CF module to a CF reader/writer and copy over the default install. |
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From there I can change IP, hostname etc etc. |
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I have several CF reader/writers one should do the trick. |
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I have a few questions; and I'm seeking advice on how to |
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scale this up, so new installs and replacing firewalls |
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hard drives is quick and easy. All will use an identical hard |
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drive setup and file systems. |
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I guess I should use 'dd' to copy the entire contents |
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of one CF drive to another? Any example syntax with dd |
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is welcome. |
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Should I keep a machine around to run fdisk on a new CF |
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module, or is there a way, I can just plug the CF module |
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into a reader/writer and burn the image onto |
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the CF module directly, and not have to use fdisk to format |
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first? |
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What about grub and the mbr. Will dd copy over all of that information, |
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or do I have to run grub (grub install) manually to ensure the MBR |
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is set properly. |
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Any other comments, caveats or ideas are most welcome. The setup |
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I'm using is as generic as possible so all old 586/pentium/k(amd) |
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arch boxes work.... |
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ideas and comments are welcome. |
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James |