[LUAU] HOSEF Workshop - OSS Imaging and Printer Repair
We are inviting *you* to come by the workshop on Saturday at The McKinley Community School for Adults from 10-2 in room 208. If the parking lot is still locked, don't be fooled. Park in the gravel outside of the fence and come on in. During this time, prior to our afternoon of fun at UH, we will be swapping out some computers to make the lab uniform. This is in preparation for a list of classes that we will soon be offering at McKinley. For those of you with those mad imaging skills, this is your chance to participate and reciprocate. Without your interdiction, we are going the way of the Ghost. If we all follow Nathan's initiative, we may just wiki a great solution. We also have a need for volunteer printer help. We have donated a HP Laserjet4 to Makiki in addition to installing Mandrake on their machines. The printer is doing that accordion thing on some pages. At the advice of those better informed, HOSEF purchased a kit from fixyourownprinter.com. The package includes a CD with instructions and the parts. It does not include a little person to fix it. Is someone out there willing to champion this? It is for Makiki, and I will get the printer to McKinley so that the work can be done with aircon. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/PR Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting
Thanks, All, for the ideas, insight, and initiative. Allow me to put some focus on our objectives so we can adequately harness all this expertise. HOSEF has donated an entire lab to McKinley. It is a tri-boot lab. Win98 lite is run during the day to serve foreign language classes their preferred app, Rosetta Stone. (want to be a winner for HOSEF, help us get this running with wine or crossover), GRUB is used to boot from the Terminal Server, and now that Kevin and others will be offering classses in the room, we have added an install of Debian Sarge to the mix. We need to image the machines as needed to preserve their ability to serve the foreign students their windows goodies. If we do a Linux install on the machines, we need to return the lab to its initial state. Bill Musson has been kind enough to donate a copy of the venerable tool, Ghost. We would love to see an OSS solution that we can share. Michael has been working with Mondo/mindi. We have a 10/100 switch, an nfs server, and a platform for your expertise. We will be gathering at McKinley on Saturday from 10-2, prior to the UH event, and you are invited to come by and help. Pending a successful OSS solution we will be swapping out a few machines to make the lab uniform, (Dell Gx1) and multicast ghosting a known good image. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting
oh wow, so thats what I need. sysprep. now i can avoid having a dozen freeze when they all discover they have conflicting host names. missing link to my ltsp/partimage imaging hack! "Nathan A. Keirn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/24/2004 07:13 PM Please respond to Linux/Unix Advocates/Users Hawaiian community discussion list To cc Subject Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting Actually I guess this is where my Windows Administrative knowledge will come in. All ghost does Windows wise is run sysprep, sysprep is a free utility that is part of W2k and XP. Sysprep allows you to enter License key, Net Bios, and basically everything else that is entered during setup. So from what we know now this would be very easy, make a hard drive image of a windows install that had sysprep run on it, but no information entered. This would give us a generic Windows install install that would be unique for every machine it was loaded on. This would be even easier if whoever needs the image done has a Volume License Key. So what does everyone think? Want to do this instead of wasting money on proprietary Norton Ghost? We could at least give this a try before we buy Ghost. Nathan ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting
I've partimage on netbooted thin clients to do imaging for windowsxp partitions via ssh and nfs. restored 7 machines in under an hour. hopefully partimage loses the stupid ntfs/experimental warning so it can be completely unattented. parted did my ntfs resizing. qt_parted will let you do it by manually w/ a gui. Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/25/2004 08:49 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Please respond to Linux/Unix Advocates/Users Hawaiian community discussion list To Linux/Unix Advocates/Users Hawaiian community discussion list cc Subject Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting Hi, Just a FYI for everyone in HOSEF. I spoke with Scott last week about donating a free copy of Ghost (9.0) to HOSEF and have ordered it through my corporation (Symantec). I should be able to deliver it next week. Bill Musson - Original Message - From: MonMotha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 7:30 pm Subject: Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting > > > > > there are OSS utilities that can do ftp and http install of > system image for > > Windows and *nix, but still can't re-partition during restore. > So, OSS > > utilities can do the same except resizing the partition on the fly. > > > > Almost all filesystems commonly used on linux have a tool for > resizing, at least > growing (to my knowledge only ext2 and ReiserFS can be shrunk). > This could be > done after an initial image is written. > > I guess I'm used to using Ghost to install on systems with > completely identical > hardware. It's just been my experience that windows doesn't like > getting put on > a completely different system than it was installed on. I guess > maybe MS has > addressed this, but I know Windows98 thinks it just had a brain > transplant and > goes completely nuts, often breaking itself in the frenzy of > trying to > "reinstall" all it's drivers. > > --MonMotha > ___ > LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list > http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau > ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
[LUAU] HOSEF Talk-Shop
Our revolving venue of OSS shop talk will be in Kapolei tonight. From 6-8:30 we will be meeting at Chili's in Kapolei. Chili's 590 Farrington Highway Kapolei, HI 96707 US 808-693-8722 I will have the table for 8 reserved under HOSEF if you arrive late. Take H-1 to the Kapolei exit and turn left. Chili's is just there to your right. --scott
Re: [LUAU] Software Freedom Day with Revolution OS
Just please keep in mind that the "official" policy is no food or drinkso please be consideratespills and such mean Scott and I have to play carpet cleaners. /brian chee University of Hawaii ICS Dept Advanced Network Computing Lab 1680 East West Road, POST rm 311 Honolulu, HI 96822 808-956-5797 voice, 877-284-1934 fax - Original Message - From: "R. Scott Belford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux/Unix Advocates/Users Hawaiian community discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:21 AM Subject: [LUAU] Software Freedom Day with Revolution OS > This Saturday we will be celebrating Software Freedom Day > > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ > > from 2:30-8 at UH's Post 127 building > > http://www.cis.hawaii.edu/guc/db/detail.php?id=190 > > > With the permission of the esteemed J.T.S. Moore, we will be showing > Revolution OS during this time. (please reciprocate his kindness and buy > his dvd for your library) The prime seating is at 5. Given a good > turnout, we may show it at 3 and 7 as well. > > http://www.revolution-os.com/ > > It is possible to eat and snack in the room, and there is outside space > to picnic. > > Please invite your friends, family, or fellow techies to join us for the > good vibe of OSS. We will have fun. > > A HUGE mahalo to Brian Chee for arranging this event with HOSEF. > > --scott > ___ > LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list > http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
[LUAU] Software Freedom Day with Revolution OS
This Saturday we will be celebrating Software Freedom Day http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ from 2:30-8 at UH's Post 127 building http://www.cis.hawaii.edu/guc/db/detail.php?id=190 With the permission of the esteemed J.T.S. Moore, we will be showing Revolution OS during this time. (please reciprocate his kindness and buy his dvd for your library) The prime seating is at 5. Given a good turnout, we may show it at 3 and 7 as well. http://www.revolution-os.com/ It is possible to eat and snack in the room, and there is outside space to picnic. Please invite your friends, family, or fellow techies to join us for the good vibe of OSS. We will have fun. A HUGE mahalo to Brian Chee for arranging this event with HOSEF. --scott
Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting
Hi, Just a FYI for everyone in HOSEF. I spoke with Scott last week about donating a free copy of Ghost (9.0) to HOSEF and have ordered it through my corporation (Symantec). I should be able to deliver it next week. Bill Musson - Original Message - From: MonMotha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 7:30 pm Subject: Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting > > > > > there are OSS utilities that can do ftp and http install of > system image for > > Windows and *nix, but still can't re-partition during restore. > So, OSS > > utilities can do the same except resizing the partition on the fly. > > > > Almost all filesystems commonly used on linux have a tool for > resizing, at least > growing (to my knowledge only ext2 and ReiserFS can be shrunk). > This could be > done after an initial image is written. > > I guess I'm used to using Ghost to install on systems with > completely identical > hardware. It's just been my experience that windows doesn't like > getting put on > a completely different system than it was installed on. I guess > maybe MS has > addressed this, but I know Windows98 thinks it just had a brain > transplant and > goes completely nuts, often breaking itself in the frenzy of > trying to > "reinstall" all it's drivers. > > --MonMotha > ___ > LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list > http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau >
