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>HOWTO Clone Disk Images on Linux Booted from a Network</TITLE
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NAME="AEN2">HOWTO Clone Disk Images on Linux Booted from a Network</H1
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NAME="AEN4"><H3
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>Guilherme Tupynambá</A
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> gtupy (at) uol.com.br<br>
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>2002-09-09<BR></P
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>Revision History</B
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>Revision 0.3</TD
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>2002-09-24</TD
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>Revised by: gct</TD
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>Review suggestions incorporated</TD
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>Revision 0.2</TD
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>2002-09-23</TD
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>Revised by: jyg</TD
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>Minor revisions</TD
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>Revision 0.1</TD
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>2002-09-09</TD
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>Revised by: gct</TD
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>First draft.</TD
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>This document describes a setup that allows a machine to boot Linux from BOOTP/TFTP, using the Grub boot loader, and save and restore disk and partition images to and from a TFTP server.</P
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>Table of Contents</B
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>1. <A
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HREF="legal.html"
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>Legal Notices</A
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>1.1. <A
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HREF="legal.html#AEN32"
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>Disclaimer</A
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>1.2. <A
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>Copyright</A
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>1.3. <A
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>2.1. <A
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HREF="introduction.html#AEN51"
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>Why clone disk images</A
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>2.2. <A
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HREF="introduction.html#AEN54"
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>Why boot from a network</A
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>2.3. <A
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HREF="introduction.html#AEN57"
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>Network boot process overview</A
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>Setting up DHCP and TFTP servers</A
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>Setting up DHCP</A
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>3.2. <A
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>Setting up TFTP</A
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>3.3. <A
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HREF="setting-up.html#AEN104"
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>Using different servers</A
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>4. <A
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>Preparing boot files</A
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>4.1. <A
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>Kernel</A
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>4.2. <A
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HREF="preparing.html#AEN128"
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>Files on initrd</A
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>4.3. <A
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HREF="preparing.html#AEN154"
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>Packing initrd</A
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>5. <A
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>Booting from Grub floppy disk</A
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>Grub menu file</A
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>5.2. <A
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>Compiling Grub with network support</A
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>Making the boot floppy disk</A
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>6. <A
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>Running the clone script</A
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>6.1. <A
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HREF="running.html#AEN287"
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>Saving and restoring disk images</A
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>6.2. <A
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HREF="running.html#AEN295"
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>Using fdisk</A
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>Extending the solution</A
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>7.1. <A
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>Saving and restoring files instead of file systems</A
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>7.2. <A
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>Setting up the master boot record</A
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>7.3. <A
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>Loading necessary modules</A
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>Predefined operations on <TT
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>grub.conf</TT
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>List of files on initrd</A
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>B. <A
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>Clone script</A
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>References</A
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