<snip> >I need to clone one of my machines to about 10 other ones. And because of >the level of customization, it would take forever to do by hand. So, I >downloaded Tom's root boot floppy from http://www.toms.net. The machine I >needed to clone was booted in read-only mode, it had an ip of 10.10.220.53. >I then booted the other machine with Tom's root boot disk and gave it the >ip >10.10.220.21. On the one I wanted to clone to, I did: >nc -l -n -v -p 6666 > /dev/sda >On the machine I wanted to clone from, I did: >cat /dev/sda | nc -n -v 10.10.220.21 6666 </SNIP> I am trying to make copies of my IPCop box. I am trying to understand the above snip, but I am not clear on how to boot the box to read-only mode, or if it is even necessary. Any detailed instruction is appreciated. -- Raymond Norton Little Crow Telemedia Network 320-234-0270