Re: Linux Equivilant of Ghost?

[Eric Bambach <eric@cisu.net>]

On Sunday 23 October 2005 03:59 pm, Michael Medwid wrote:
> Is there a method to quickly replicate a bunch of Linux workstations
> to a desired image like you can do with Symantec's Ghost product on
> Windows?   For example suppose you have a classroom with 15 PCs and
> you want them all to have the same image.  If there is such a beast -
> does it support multicast to be able to image several machines on a
> LAN all at once?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michael
> -

In a pinch there is alwatys dd :). This is especially true if they have 
identical hard drive sizes and partition layouts

dd if=(Image source) of=(image destination) bs=512

where image source will be an entire hard drive like the primary 
master /dev/hda and dest. will be /dev/hdb. ALso you can do this over the 
network!

Boot the image destination from a boot cd, (I like gentoo cause you can get 
SSHD up with 1 command)

On the image master

dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 | ssh root@imagedestination dd of=/dev/hda

This will block copy the hard drive on the source (/dev/hda) over the network 
onto the destination hard drive (/dev/hda).

Ugly, but it could hold you over till you get ghost up and going and its quite 
simple.


-- 
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--EB

> All is fine except that I can reliably "oops" it simply by trying to read
> from /proc/apm (e.g. cat /proc/apm).
> oops output and ksymoops-2.3.4 output is attached.
> Is there anything else I can contribute?

The latitude and longtitude of the bios writers current position, and
a ballistic missile.

                --Alan Cox LKML-December 08,2000 

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