I have setup y ubuntu with all kind of my setting  now I want to duplicate it to 9 more computers (so I will have 10 exactly the same computers - with all the software\users\setting.....) how I create an image and how do I install it on a new computer? also if something happand to the computer I will be able to full restore it ? Thanks ,
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Kind-of like  but slightly different (I think), in that I have 6 identical Acer Aspire Revo R3610 machines. One is (almost) configured to my requirements - when I'm done preparing it I'd like to make the other 5 machines absolutely the same. I'm very new to Ubuntu, what's the most straightforward (easiest) way of doing this?  The machines are going to live on different networks if that might otherwise be a problem (eg with Windows you can clone disks but you then have to make registry changes afterwards if they're going to run on the same network etc). The hardware in all 6 machines is, I stress, the same!  How can I efficiently clone one source image on to these identical machines?  Please restrict one software/solution per answer
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I had promissed my 120 students that I will install ubuntu 10.10 on their laptops but failed to do it.The laptops were dell vostro 4014. All have same hardware. I took one laptop and installed ubuntu and  all the necessary packages, and also wine to run some windows software. I selected the default ext4 file system.   Then I tried to use clonezilla server to clone the installation. Clonezilla server shows boot menu splash screen, but later on it says that I might be having a latest NIC unsupported by the kernel. But the NIC of the laptop on which I had installed ubuntu works fine.  Later I tried to use the clonezilla live cd to boot the laptop which has ubuntu. But when I press 'Y' to start cloning, it says 'something went wrong'. Again I tried the 'dd' command to save as disk image. But it copies empty space. So it is not feasible for me as it takes really long time.   I have made my students to wait for many days, daily they are coming and asking whether my setup is ready. Today I realized I can't do it. I have in a way convinced them not to go for windows. So they are waiting for me to have ubuntu installed on their laptops. Today evening some of them will come to collect the laptops I took from them to install ubuntu. Don't know how and what to tell them.
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I am looking to create a USB flash drive that I can put multiple  ISO images on and select which boots from startup. The ideal candidate supports Linux and Windows-based ISO images, and is relatively simple. It also must have some reasonable process for adding and removing an ISO image from the drive/list.    Things that I'm not looking for in this specific question:    or other swiss-army knife live CDs. The point is to boot any one of multiple CDs, not to boot a (certainly useful) utility CD. Installing a single live CD to a USB drive. I'd like to have multiple ISO images, selectable at startup.   I don't have a specific purpose in mind, possibilties include a single drive with a  variant, Ubuntu desktop, UBCD4Win for DOS, the Offline NT Password Cracker, etc.  Flexible and easy to use are the name of the game!
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Can I install extra desktop environments without affecting my current environment?   I'm asking because I got mixed messages saying that it is no problem as well as those that say that the universe basically exploded when they switched temporarily.
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Part 1 is here if anyone is interested:      I've got 100 PC's to setup. Is it possible to set up 1 of these PC's   with software, drivers, settings, configs, licenses etc, then   clone/image exactly the same setup onto the other computers where each   computer would have a different computer name, different user name for   each application etc?   Basically, I found that I cannot use sysprep to prepare the system for cloning with CloneZilla.  This is because sysprep pulls the OEM key out of the image from Dell computers.  We have Dell computers.  So, as all the 100 computers are identical, how do I prepare the system for cloning, before using CloneZilla?
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I use ubuntu to deal with daily job. Now I buy a new laptop, and I want to migrate my whole system(programs, packages, data, settings, etc) to the new machine.  I know I can copy my home folder to new machine and I will get (almost) all data and settings. But is there a safe way to copy the whole system? Or it's a bad idea?
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Installing Ubuntu OpenStack requires at least five machines with two disks, two of which have two network interfaces (NICs). Install Ubuntu Server on one of the machines with two interfaces.  Why do I need two disks? What if I have 5 machines with 2TB capacity each but on a single disk? Would this setup not work i:e ? Why do we need 2 interfaces on two machines? I understand for one machine, one interface connects to the internet and the second to the local network. But why do we need 2 interfaces for the second machine?
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Where are the images from  coming from?  Where are they being saved on my system?  Is there any way for me to point this at my own source of images?
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I am going to put an additional (non-USB) hard drive in my system. I already have Ubuntu on my other hard drive so I do not want to install Ubuntu on the additional drive but only use it for storage. How do I add the additional hard drive to my Ubuntu system, e.g. make Ubuntu recognize it and mount it properly?
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I've just cloned a computer () and I want to make sure it will be OK on the same network as the original.   I've changed the host name back to what it was pre cloning, so there won't be duplicates on the network, but I want to make sure I make any other necessary fixes before I put the computers running Ubuntu 12.04, on the same network. Is there anything else I need to do before I link them back up?
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I am about to set up box to basically be a file server. I plan on having multiple drives in the box, and would like to set them all up so that they appear to be a single drive. So I could essentially have it mounted at say /media and not really care which drive gets used. I am not sure what the correct terminology for doing this is, so my Google fu is useless in this situation.   So how do I set up multiple hard drives to appear as one single drive?
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I am going to be buying a second hard drive for my desktop here pretty soon, because my current hard drive is a piece of junk running windows 7. What I want to know is how to install Ubuntu on the second drive. I am looking for a non complicated answer as I am not familiar with the Ubuntu lingo. I am so sick of Windows.. I used Ubuntu before but it didn't work properly. When I installed it, it said I didn't have enough space... Even though I had 600GB to use. Anyway if anyone can help me out it would be much appreciated. Thanks
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I am wondering, when you select the option of just "Try Ubuntu" instead of installing, where does Ubuntu store the files that you download / copy / save?  I right click in the Home folder, and it specified I had 4GB free space. Where did it get this 4GB space from, and if I transition to another OS system, how can I access or delete all the previous data from the session of "Try Ubuntu"?  Thank you!
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I was trying to install Ubuntu on an older laptop which doesn't have a DVD ROM or a USB boot capabilities.  Is there an option to burn the image files to a Cd ROM? I am pretty sure that the size of the image file may be slightly larger to fit on a CD ROM. Is there a way to split the image files and use two CD Roms instead?
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In Windows 7 you could create a system image that you restore later on in the Backup and Restore options:    However Backup and Restore options have changed in Windows 8. They look like this now:    Is it still possible to create a system image so that I can restore it later on or has this  feature been removed?
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I have a problem: today at work I was told that tomorrow afternoon I have to give my pc back and take a new one just arrived. It could be a good new, but I'm a developer and I use a lot of different software to work (Visual Studio, Delphi, Eclipse, Android, Apache, MySql, etc...) and I can't think about starting to reinstall and configure everything... usually it means one week lost... and some data usually get lost too with those migrations... So, is there any way I can use my current disk as system disk on new pc? I'm afraid because motherboard and cpu are completely different...  Is there something I could do to prepare "migration"? Any kind of Sysprep command so when Windows Seven boots start recognizing new devices without getting lost with previous ones?  UPDATE: Perhaps I've just found a suitable solution here:
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My ubuntu laptop is customised with all the programs and themes of my choise,can i transfer these software to another computer running ubuntu and install them there via usb drive.