<OT> Cloing HP Visualize Workstations (HP-UX 10.20)

[Keith Morse]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 ian at linux-sxs.org wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> long time since I've read or posted...been away from home most of the last 
> month working a office rollout.
> 
> The customer who is driving the requirements for this office, has some pretty 
> finicky and esoteric requirements to run the cadd software that they use.
> 
> We have a working configuration we need to roll out on several other machines 
> and we're looking for a way to clone/duplicate this machine instead of the long 
> and tedious job of configuring 10+ more machines manually.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this can be done reliably?
> 
> The hardware specs for anyone interested are:
> 
> - HP C3600 Workstations
> - HP A1658-60031 HDisk (SCSI Ultra 160 LVD)
> 
> The thing I am stumped by is how to get both disks running in the same machine 
> and bit-for-bit copy them.  From what I can tell, in order to have them both in 
> the same system, they need to be initialized as different volumes (ie /dev/vg00 
> and /dev/vg01) and I cannot find  out if the /dev/vg01 can be used at the main 
> booting disk in a system after cloing, or if it *has to be* /dev/vg00.  I'm an 
> IBM kinda guy, so anyone out there with any hints, I'd really appreciate them.


Wish I knew more about the HP world.  A silly question for the list is, is 
there a "jumpstart" (Sun Solaris) equivalent for HPUX?