On 5/2/06, Glen Wagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm forwarding this for the infamous Brent Thomson. Some mean UUG admins
won't let him change his email address... ;-)
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Glen Wagley
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From: Brent Thomson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 1:42 PM
To: Glen Wagley
Subject: [Fwd: image propagation]
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: image propagation
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 09:59:41 -0600
From: Brent Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: BYU Unix Users Group <[email protected]>
Has anybody installed large numbers of similar machines by installing a
single machine and imaging the rest? What I'd like is a bootable CD or
thumb drive that does the imaging automatically. I've got my
to-be-imaged computer successfully *trying* to boot from the thumb drive
by installing syslinux on it, but there's no OS or image to transfer.
Does anyone know of a simple method for creating the image, setting up
an OS on the removable media, and installing the image on client machines?
After a bit of googling, I've seen directions for making the image using
dd, dump, and systemimager. Does anyone have recommendations for which
to use? Is there something else even better?
Doesn't sound like it does *everything* you want, but check out mondo:
http://www.mondorescue.org/
Works pretty darn well.
Bryan
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