I’m wanting to create a centralized repository to keep base images of operating systems to be installed on new laptops or workstations bought/used in my household with my local CA already installed, configured to authenticate with my local FreeIPA instance, network configurations already configured, etc.

What do you all use to accomplish this? I’m only free/libre/open source software for my home lab, so that’s a requirement as well.

Ideally I’d like to be able to buy a computer, flash the latest and greatest from my repository onto a bootable thumb drive, install onto the computer, and be ready to go without any further configuration.

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    1 year ago

    Clonezilla. I usually prepare images in virtual machines and restore them on physical drives.

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      1 year ago

      How do you deal with the hardware differences between a virtual machine and actual hardware?

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        1 year ago

        I only tried this with windows which works fine: on restore Clonezilla has an option to rescale partitions on the fly to fit the destination drive. For drivers, windows detect changes and update them the first time is started on the physical machine.