Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network
--- Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For Batch-B Linux partitions I have two questions: A. Is there any short way of cloning the partition table of a master, including resizing of Windows Partition? Clonig and resizing together? These are two atomic operations better kept separate. B. Fortunately Batch-B was identical to Batch-A hardware-wise, so ghosting linux partition was fine and achieved, but what if Batch-A and Batch-B were slightly different, say a different ethernet card or a different monitor / display card, if I ghost from Batch-A to Batch-B what all the problems can be?? Well two options 1) Take a batch B PC do an install and replicate all the images. 2) use image from batch A to do the replication. Most of the hardware changes will be detected by linux and kernel/udev/hald will load suitable drivers on first boot. You might have to reconfigure the GUI in linux. For Windows partition, may god bless you. Windows XP might cry out loud because of hardware changes. regards VK Engineers normally have problem with every solution. If not they have a solution in search of a problem. Disclaimer The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw... Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545469 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network
On 7/18/07, Sudev Barar wrote: On 16/07/07, vivek khurana wrote: --- Anand Shankar wrote: Looking for a cool, snap to setup with defaults, fast to finish solution for cloning disks over network: Have a look at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ . Might solve our problem. Anand Did you try this? Some where else I read about netcat and dd being used. Do share your experience. -- Regards, Sudev Barar G4L helped us in solving most of the problems we were worried about. With the logistics constraint I could get 5 PCs at a time on the user desk. We achieved fantastic speeds of 20-40MB/s on a switched 10/100Mbps LAN. I could successfully finish installations in 45-75 min for an image size of abt 10GB. What was left was correcting the hostnames and admitting to Domain and this is a manual step at each location. anand ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network
Intentionally separated the mail for one more issue. We received the PCs in two lots, Batch-A plain vanilla FreeDOS on 160GB disks, so installing WinXP and Linux and ghosting it was simple. Batch-B same make and hardware, but with WinXP preinstalled. For Batch-B we have resized the Windows partition using qtparted and created further partitions for Linux. As for Linux, we created another image from the Linux partition of Batch-A and restored it to the appropirate partition in Batch-B. Obviously partition sizes of the two batches were similar but partition table layout was different as also the partition number of the swap partition. That was all done nicely by setting up GRUB again for Batch-B and redefining swap location post ghosting. Ghosting of Windows Partition in Batch-B was not possible as we would have lost the pre-installed licenses!!! So that will have to be done one by one - painful resizing of all Batch-B PCs and repeating the corrective process for Linux Partition and doing everything else for Windows partition as what we would have done for a new PC. I do'nt have any idea for handling this kind of customisation for a pre-installed Windows-XP PC. For Batch-B Linux partitions I have two questions: A. Is there any short way of cloning the partition table of a master, including resizing of Windows Partition? B. Fortunately Batch-B was identical to Batch-A hardware-wise, so ghosting linux partition was fine and achieved, but what if Batch-A and Batch-B were slightly different, say a different ethernet card or a different monitor / display card, if I ghost from Batch-A to Batch-B what all the problems can be?? Fortunately Batch-B size is only 10 PCs. anand ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network
On 7/18/07, Kishore Bhargava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually used g4u very successfully to clone disks. Not only that, the disk I was cloning was actually broken and none of the disk recovery tools wanted to work on it. Once I cloned it, I then recovered everything from the cloned disk. I now carry g4u as part of my toolkit! Great tool, makes sense. desktop team would definitely be most happiest ppl, no need to move/open boxes with dirty hands ;) Regards Yash ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network
Sudev Barar wrote: On 16/07/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for a cool, snap to setup with defaults, fast to finish solution for cloning disks over network: Have a look at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ . Might solve our problem. Anand Did you try this? Some where else I read about netcat and dd being used. Do share your experience. I actually used g4u very successfully to clone disks. Not only that, the disk I was cloning was actually broken and none of the disk recovery tools wanted to work on it. Once I cloned it, I then recovered everything from the cloned disk. I now carry g4u as part of my toolkit! Cheers...Kishore -- To err is human, to purr feline. To err is human, two curs canine. To err is human, to moo bovine. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network
On 18/07/07, Kishore Bhargava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ . Might solve our problem. Anand Did you try this? Some where else I read about netcat and dd being used. Do share your experience. I actually used g4u very successfully to clone disks. Not only that, the disk I was cloning was actually broken and none of the disk recovery tools wanted to work on it. Once I cloned it, I then recovered everything from the cloned disk. I now carry g4u as part of my toolkit! Thanks for vote of confidence and thanks Vivek for pointing it out. In to my tool kit now too. -- Regards, Sudev Barar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network
I actually used g4u very successfully to clone disks. Not only that, the disk I was cloning was actually broken and none of the disk recovery tools wanted to work on it. Once I cloned it, I then recovered everything from the cloned disk. I now carry g4u as part of my toolkit! Thanks for vote of confidence and thanks Vivek for pointing it out. In to my tool kit now too. I am in fact sitting on an external USB disk that has crashed. It has two fat32 partitions. Can g4u be of some help in case of an external drive? Does anybody have an experience? Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network
On 16/07/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for a cool, snap to setup with defaults, fast to finish solution for cloning disks over network: Have a look at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ . Might solve our problem. Anand Did you try this? Some where else I read about netcat and dd being used. Do share your experience. -- Regards, Sudev Barar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network
--- Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for a cool, snap to setup with defaults, fast to finish solution for cloning disks over network: Have a look at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ . Might solve our problem. regards VK Engineers normally have problem with every solution. If not they have a solution in search of a problem. Disclaimer The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw... 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
