I have 200 windows 7 laptops that were just delivered. I have a test laptop that I have setup with ubuntu. What is the best way to clone the new laptops to exactly match the identical ubuntu ( setup the way I want ) laptop.
I've tried many things:
1) DRBL will not load because it cannot find the imp file ( I had great hopes for this one )
2) FOG will not run on ext
I clone many machines in my work and I have great success with simply using tar from the command line.
Mount the partition of the source hard drive to (say) /mnt.
tar cvfpz /home/me/documents/mybackup.tar.gz /mnt
I recreate the partitions on the new HDD. Untar my Tarball to the new partition and re install grub.
Mount new hard drive to /mnt
cd /
tar xvfpz /my back up.tar.gz
All in all it is relatively quick and painless.
