Hi, Please send along your scripts, I sure there are others besides me that would like to see them.
Thanks in advance, Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric S. Johansson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 3:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost? > > > Raphael Melo wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > This is my first post on this list, I work at the University of > > Brasilia and we're planning a large scale migration to Open Source, > > removing Windows completely from our computers. But, installing one by > > one is not viable. Since the hardware of most of the machines is the > > same, I want to install it in one, and then just copy the image of it > > to all the others. Yet, I do not know any tool besides Norton Ghost > > and we don't have the license for it. > > So, I'd appreciate if anyone had any suggestions of open source > > programs that do the same task as it does. > > the only one I know of is dd. but it has lots of sharp edges so be > careful. One thing I recently created that you may be interested in was > a series of shell scripts which creates a repeatable build process with > gentoo. You place the scripts on a flash USB memory stick, boot off of > live CD, mount up the stick to /mnt/flash and after customization, run > startup script. the primary advantage using the scripts is that you can > create a predictable build process used to create your Master disk > image. And unlike a hand created master disk image, you can tell > exactly what you did and place the history in some configuration > management environment. > > they have rough edges but you are welcome to them if you want them. > > ---eric > > -- > http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/12/18/heloise/index.html > > The basis of Abelard's philosophy, which he taught to Heloise, was > that logic had to be applied to religion in order to arrive at the > truth. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
