<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> David; Great News. Duplication is possible and quite rapid in terminal: <blockquote type="cite">root@520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=/dev/sdg of=USB8.img 15687680+0 records in 15687680+0 records out 8032092160 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 421.146 s, 19.1 MB/s root@520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=USB8.img of=/dev/sdg 15687680+0 records in 15687680+0 records out 8032092160 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 2461.4 s, 3.3 MB/s root@520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# </blockquote> Sucessfully copies the USB stick! this is an exact copy and boot and runs well. *Thus one can develop a custom install and then duplicate it. * the same command can be repeated by pressing arrow cursor up and hitting return with new stick once the .img file is created. * I have sucessfully done a [USB4.img.tar.gz] file and then uncompressed it. So it should be possible to download USB .img files over the net. I had several failures though.: (The USB's are slightly different in size sometimes even though same size and manufacturer) (Bad elements?) root@520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# dd if=USB4.img of=/dev/sdg dd: writing to `/dev/sdg': No space left on device 7843840+0 records in 7843839+0 records out 4016045568 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 1008.41 s, 4.0 MB/s root@520n-robert:/home/robert/Desktop# Still testing Tom Gilliard David Farning wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:b6625b990908031703g73acbd1s10a24dc238dbf82d@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Thomas C Gilliard<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:satellit@bendbroadband.com"><satellit@bendbroadband.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">David; 1-Could a KS file be used in the Fedora11 net install to customize the clone process? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Yes, I think so. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">2-could it be in the Soas3 .iso tied to the already included anaconda? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I don't think so, this afternoon I looked through the contents on the standard liveusb.iso and did not see a kickstart file. It seems like the .iso is an image of an install which is just copied over to the drive for installation. Sebastian must keep the kickstart somewhere else. I'll ping him and look for it. I'll let you know if find out where it is. david </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Tom Gilliard satellit </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>