Linux is pretty amazing in this regard. A while back I was looking for a way to "ghost" a preconfigured system so I could install it quickly many times without have to reinstall and reconfigure Linux and all the apps on each new server. I used RedHat9 and a tool called Mondo rescue to created bootable recovery CDs and took them to a variety of different systems and they booted and installed with very few problems (mouse being the worst, or maybe it just seemed the worst with having a GUI and no mouse to use it until it got configured via shell). There was a lot of adding and deleting of hardware during the initial boot, but it worked pretty well. I usually had to change to boot device and partition sizes from the master - no problems. Systems were up and running all configured like the master in under 2 hours - most of that just reading CDs.
Greg > Message: 9 > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 16:51:05 +0000 > From: Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Try this with windows > To: CLUG General <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 11/1/05, Ian Bruseker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/1/05, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know if anyone's ever tried something like that with windows, > > > but it doesn't like it one bit. The one time I've tried it (just to > > > see what would happen,) it wouldn't boot past the bad HAL errors. > > > > > Well, I think it may have gotten better with XP (don't know what > > version you're talking about, but I have seen bad HAL stuff many a > > time in the NT 4.0 days). > > Oops, I forgot to mention before, but they were all with Windows XP (I > think all pro, at least one had SP1.) > > -Mark _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
