Hi Darren, Any reason you cant use virtualisation and / or thin client kind of action?
If for instance you have a linux hypervisor installed on each machine you could kick up a virtual machine with the required environment. dirty up the image and then replace the image with a clean centos / windows whenever you need it. Cheers, Andrew On 22 January 2015 at 13:22, Darren Williams <d.willia...@bradford.ac.uk> wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > The idea of using a VHD(X) was to enable use to use disk imaging tools such > as ghost, wds etc to deploy images of this type of system to over 500 > machines. > > We have not found an imaging solutions that can image and deploy via > multicast a system set up in the standard way you describe. > > Regards > > Darren Williams > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf > Of Mark LaPierre > Sent: 22 January 2015 02:55 > To: centos@centos.org; Mark LaPierre > Subject: Re: [CentOS] ** Newbie - HELP ** > > On 01/21/15 04:30, Darren Williams wrote: >> Hi ALL, >> Sorry for this if it is a stupid question, but: >> >> Is it possible to native boot centos from a VHD/VHDX file in a similar way >> to Windows 8.1? >> >> I am hoping to dual 'native' boot Windows 8.1 and CentOS; but then I want to >> Image the disk to deploy it to other classroom machines. >> >> Any help advice would be appreciated. >> >> I've had an unsuccessful play with easybcd's neogrub; and I have a working >> CentOS VM in Hyper-V - but it's the native boot I'm really interested in. >> >> Regards >> >> Darren >> >> _______________________________________________ > > Hey Darren, > > Perhaps I'm not understanding your needs but I have to ask why you are not > setting up a normal dual boot system where you install Windows first on half > your hard drive, then CentOS on the other half? That would give you two > systems with native boot ability. When you have that set up and running you > could clone that disk for the other machines in the computer lab. > > -- > _ > °v° > /(_)\ > ^ ^ Mark LaPierre > Registered Linux user No #267004 > https://linuxcounter.net/ > **** > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
