OK, quick note since I am swamped.
I am setting up a clone server based on Fedora 10, DRBL and Clonezilla to clone hard drives for a project. I will post up links later, but this is a place ot share knowledge and experiences.
I have a project to build 6 blade systems. Each Blade Chassis will hold 10 blades. Each blade is 2 complete nodes. Each node has 2 5670s and 2x 2gb (one for each processor) plus one 2.5" hdd.
All of these systems (120 in total) will be running Windows Server 2008 R2.
So I didn't want to install 120 copies of windows (we are not setup for network installs yet), and install and configure the customers software on 120 systems. Plus this is a rush order and I didn't want to camp out here for the next few days either. My solution? Install once and clone the drives. Since this is a volume license setup, All of the systems will have the same key. In fact everything will be identical until the SE sets it up at the customers site, then the hostname and IP address will change.
I have used the clonezilla live cd in the past and although it is slow, I found that it can be automated. Then I ran across the Clonezilla server tools. After a little reading I was able to setup this clonezilla server with minimal effort. In fact the hardest part was getting the base OS since our download speed at work sucks rocks.
I will post more info later since I am under the gun and must work on multiple projects at once, like the quad node servers (7 of them ) that go with this order running RHEL5v4 and a custom designed faceplate for another customer.. (more on that later).