Indeed. I'm not releasing the hounds quite yet since I just recently sent that post. However, starting tomorrow I'm going to be somewhat firm for a bit. ;-)
--- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" Download your free copy: http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Tortorich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <General at brlug.net> Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] qtparted > Whoops. Just read Dustins posts. Sorry yall. I personally dont think > that this group would be fun without the flame wars. I mean I guess some > ppl take them personally (I have in the past - its hard when someone > freaks out and calls you names). I havent been a member that long > (couple years maybe?) but I think the flamewars dominate the group, so > it might be more appropriate to start a BRLUG-tech than anything else =) > > Will Hill wrote: > >>Funny how Microsoft problems often lead to calls to buy yet more >>Microsoft. >>It's like a chain reaction leading to criticality and meltdown. >> >>On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:10 pm, Chris Tortorich wrote: >> >> >>>Tim, >>> >>>Lets take a step back. Im sure ill get flamed for this, but if you are >>>in a windows enviroment, and you have an image server, you can just use >>>RIS from microsoft. I successfully used it in my labs at LSU to image >>>PCs over the network. One image works for many PCs.. If you prepare the >>>image correctly with riprep you should have little problems, even on >>>differning hardware. Its pretty quick too. The only snag you can run >>>into is unsupported network drivers, but those can be shoved in there - >>>there are KBs about it. Its fine if you just want to use linux to >>>accomplish this task but if I remember the gnuparted stuff it basically >>>says its NTFS support isnt that great and if it works, it will work fine >>>but if it doesnt, good luck. I could be wrong. Makes sense since NTFS is >>>proprietary. >>> >>>If you are looking for something to go back to a good config after some >>>user borks it, goback works pretty well too. Just depends on what you >>>are trying to accomplish. >>> >>>Chris >>> >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>General mailing list >>General at brlug.net >>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
