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have a look at gi/docs/object_class.fig
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-********************************************************************************
-* OEM **************************************************************************
-********************************************************************************
-> I am a system OEM in Bangalore,India selling systems bundled with
-> Mandrakelinux. The problem is that with every system I sell, I need to
-> install & configure the system which takes HOURS!. Can I do a diskcopy
-> instead?
->
-> Please Help. This is a major bottleneck for me.
-
-many solutions:
-
-- make an install on drive hdb, then :
- dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hdc
- but you should make sure the hardware is *REALLY* identical.
-
-- try the oem feature
- 3. - burn a cd out of *latest* cooker or 8.0 and above.
- - boot on it telling "oem" to syslinux
- !! it will destroy every data on the harddrive or
- resize (or use free space) if *ONLY* one fat partition is defined !!
- - you now have a very automated install matrix
- (duplicate it with "dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hdc bs=1M count=730")
-
- put the harddrive in the oem box, the user will now have an *very* automated
- install, just asking the root password and user password, and some other
- question according its hardware.
-
- 4. just like 3. but you may have to mount /cdrom after typing rescue on
- syslinux prompt (oem script do it automatically if a automatic boot nfs
- network has been done as server is known). under /cdrom may be anything
- as long as it provides an installation tree of Mandrakelinux.
- after that run oem script by typing "/etc/oem -f" for normal installation
- or "/etc/oem -f server" for server installation (normal with server installed).
-
- 5. (just like 3. without burning a cd, doing the first part by hand)
- have a look at the /etc/oem script on the rescue and do it by hand...
-
-
-cu Pixel, fpons.
-
-
-comments:
-1. maybe copy unnecessary things -> take too long
- solution -> use bs=8k count=xxxx
-2. kernel_reread can be found on the new rescue, source is also at end of this
-mail. This solution works with one partition. Can be easily enhanced to many
-primary partitions... For extended partitions, more complicated, but not much :)
-3. has just been added in latest cooker. It may still have some pb. The main
-current limitation is IDE only, though it can be fixed easily for special cases.
-
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <sys/mount.h>
-#include <fcntl.h>
-
-void die(char *msg)
-{
- perror(msg);
- exit(1);
-}
-
-void kernel_read(char *dev)
-{
- int fd;
- if ((fd = open(dev, O_RDONLY)) == -1) die("can't open device");
- ioctl(fd, BLKRRPART, 0);
- close(fd);
-}
-
-int main(int argc, char **argv)
-{
- if (argc != 2) {
- fprintf(stderr, "usage: kernel_read_part <hard drive device>\n");
- exit(1);
- }
- kernel_read(argv[1]);
-}