Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Using LTSP to Cold backup windoze boxen

2003-11-18 Thread David Johnston
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 06:25, Peter Rundle wrote: > I did try at first to copy the boot sector and the hda1 as two > seperate images. The trouble is that on recovery, I restore the boot > sector and partition table, by > >dd if=/home/images/ws1.boot.img of=/dev/hda > > but at this point the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Using LTSP to Cold backup windoze boxen

2003-11-17 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Peter Rundle wrote: Now I'm asking for some ideas to further "automate" this process. It would be really cool to be able to control whether the PC boots local or net from the server end rather than at the PC. I guess some configuring in dhcp or tftp might be the answer? Any suggestions? There

[Ltsp-discuss] Using LTSP to Cold backup windoze boxen

2003-11-17 Thread Peter Rundle
G'day, Following up from Kent's posting about accessing the local hard disk and his desire to be able to restore his classroom PC's using LTSP, I've had a bit of a play around and have managed to get LTSP to do this. It's so simple yet if any Sys admins out there have ever had the (dis)pleasure