<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Brent Norris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brent@brentnorris.net">brent@brentnorris.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">I have some new sticks on their way because I plan on upgrading my frontends to FC10 and since it was $24 for three of the 4gig ones I just got new ones. My plan is to do the installs on the new sticks and then just switch them out. If it doesn't work then just go back to the old stick until I sort out what the problem is.<br>
<br>It also has some great advantages in that I loaded one machine, pulled the stick out of it, took it to my backend plugged it in and the other one too, and ran<br>dd if=/dev/sdg of=/dev/sdh<br>dd if=/dev/sdg of=frontend.img<br>
<br>and poof I had another stick for my other frontend and an image in case I messed something up. Plugged the second copy in, changed the hostname and static IP and away I went.<br><br>No DHCP options to change, no dealing with MiniMyth (which I think is a great project, but didn't want to work for me at all), no hard drive whine, no heat from the hard drive, they boot fast. I just did a normal Fedora install on them.<br>
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<div>Do you just stick the sticks into a USB port - or do you have them mounted internally (with a IDE/SATA to USB connector)?</div>
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<div>Thanks<br>Nick</div></div>