From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bambach Subject: Re: Linux Equivilant of Ghost? Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 23:23:22 -0500 Message-ID: <200510232323.22675.eric@cisu.net> References: Reply-To: eric@cisu.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Michael Medwid Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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= =20 identical hard drive sizes and partition layouts dd if=3D(Image source) of=3D(image destination) bs=3D512 where image source will be an entire hard drive like the primary=20 master /dev/hda and dest. will be /dev/hdb. ALso you can do this over t= he=20 network! Boot the image destination from a boot cd, (I like gentoo cause you can= get=20 SSHD up with 1 command) On the image master dd if=3D/dev/hda bs=3D512 | ssh root@imagedestination dd of=3D/dev/hda This will block copy the hard drive on the source (/dev/hda) over the n= etwork=20 onto the destination hard drive (/dev/hda). Ugly, but it could hold you over till you get ghost up and going and it= s quite=20 simple. --=20 ---------------------------------------- --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. =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0--Alan Cox LKML-Decembe= r 08,2000=20 ---------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs