If all your drives are the same ghost will copy disk to disk no matter what
the OS is.
Just open the machines and plug the copy drive into the other IDE port.
Regards Rod
----- Original Message -----
From: "Goldenpi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Cloning Drives?
> Looks like you have some cd drive moveing to do. Althrough copying disk to
> disk under linux can be done, its not going to be easy. You would have to
do
> a raw copy of the drive. This assumes the drives are all the same model.
> First you have the problem of connecting them together by parallel. I
tried
> that, a plip needs you to recompile the kernal.
>
> What you could do, if the drives are big enough, is to install from a fat
> partition. That way you could use trusty interlink to connect them. I have
> never dont that, but it can be done under some distros. Possibly mandrake.
> The only catch is you might have to install windows along the way. I dont
> know.
>
> Final option: do they have network cards? ftp install?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kirby J. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 8:13 PM
> Subject: [newbie] Cloning Drives?
>
>
> Has anyone had success in cloning Linux from one PC to another? I'm fairly
> new to Linux so I definitely consider myself a "newbie"....
>
> This is my situation... our private school had 8 identical IBM PC's
donated
> for the students and teachers. Seeing as we had the hardware but no
software
> (and no funds for the software) I decided that I would try to set up
> Mandrake on the computers and let the teachers use Star Office for their
> work.
>
> The problem is that none of the computers came with CD-ROMs. I went out
and
> purchased an inexpensive internal drive and used it to set up one of the
> eight machines like I wanted it and now I want to set up the other seven
> machines.
>
> Ideally, I would like to be able to set the other machines up without
going
> through the same process all over again (i.e., open the PC up, temporarily
> attach the CD-ROM, etc.). I've attempted to use Norton Ghost 6.5 and use
the
> disk-to-disk copy via the parallel ports and the supplied null cable but
it
> doesn't seem to be working as I get an error message when I try to boot up
> the "slave" PC.
>
> Can I clone/copy over the hard drive via the parallel ports from within
> Linux using "dd" or something?
>
> Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> .... Kirby
>
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