On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 12:18 -0400, James Tremblay wrote: > Dave, > I have four different model IBM's in my school ranging from pIII 1000Mhz > to pIV 2.8 Ghz , currently I use one Master WinXP image for Zenworks > imaging. I can't seem to find any documentation for creating this same > kind of "Master Image" for SLED. I understand that Imaging will be less > of an issue with Linux due to the severely lowered privilege's regarding > installing software into the core operating system, but I still need to > be able to overcome any form of corruption quickly. I would also like to > distribute a dual boot system image for few years. How do automate the > local host name change for Zenworks importing and management?
With different hardware any image of the windows part of the drive will be a problem. You will need safe mode and to fuss with drivers. For SuSE its much easier boot to mode 3; run SaX2 -l; init 5; login as root at which point the different hardware will be found click yes for the reconfiguration and your fine. I installed 9.2 this way on a PIII and moved the disk to the PII because the PIII had the DVD. As I remember Zenworks like VMware is for running multiple OS in parallel. But first you want an image for SLED and to dual boot. There I think its easier first start with your XP partition on what we will call the primary system which would be on hda1 and I assume no file exchange partition as users will have flash drives. Second partition the rest of the drive as an extended partition into which you will use Yast/Custome partitioning for the logical partitions for Linux. I recommend using the standard four, /boot / swap and /home as hda5, hda6, hda7 and hda8 respectively. Now here its tricky DVD backup will fail over time due to media failure so consider it temporary, harddrives can fail but overtime they have a longer shelf life than the ten years commonly assumed for CDR and DVDR. So backup your backup at least yearly and make incrementals if you make small changes. You can also mirror the drive onto another drive say in a USB inclosure. Yes you want to be paranoid. Now for that master image of the dual booting drive you just created. As long as the target device is the same or larger than the source you can use device-device to copy /dev/hda to /dev/hdb thats not just one partition but the whole drive byte by byte partitions and all. All that is needed is the target to be on the network somewhere hdb here is only an example as I have a system with two caddy because for a long time I only had one burner so I used sneaker net to bring the drive to backup. If however you want to do this on systems which are remote or just not on the network then you can use mondo-rescue to make an install set for all the programs on your system. If you want the Windows partition included it must be mounted at the time you run mondo. Then you will have an executable setup which boots and installs the disks. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
