From: Eric Bambach <eric@cisu.net>
To: Michael Medwid <mmedwid@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Equivilant of Ghost?
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 23:23:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510232323.22675.eric@cisu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <faf407640510231359t46ac5b92uf4e46ec099178132@mail.gmail.com>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-24 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-23 20:59 Linux Equivilant of Ghost? Michael Medwid
2005-10-23 18:34 ` David Fierbaugh
2005-10-24 4:23 ` Eric Bambach [this message]
2005-10-28 3:01 ` Stephen Samuel
2005-10-26 5:29 ` rob
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