On 5/3/06, David Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why not just tar the contents of / on the computer to be 'imaged', then boot the other computers you wish to install it on with a boot disc, untar it on the new computer, and have grub/lilo install itself on the MBR? If you wanted to be clever (and type less) you could probably throw together a shell script to the actual installation.
That's pretty much what mondo does, except it uses afio instead of tar (supposedly more robust handling of weird filenames and such), and it comperesses everything, and it makes a bootable CD you can do the restore from, and it will split the big tar file across multiple CDs or DVDs, or it will make a bootable cd that will download the rest of the archive from an nfs mounted hard drive, plus you can run mondo every week and it will just do a differential backup, and well, you get the idea. Bryan -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
