Hi there,
This is my first post on this list, I work at the University of Brasilia and we're planning a large scale migration to Open Source, removing Windows completely from our computers. But, installing one by one is not viable. Since the hardware of most of the machines is the same, I want to install it in one, and then just copy the image of it to all the others. Yet, I do not know any tool besides Norton Ghost and we don't have the license for it. So, I'd appreciate if anyone had any suggestions of open source programs that do the same task as it does.
the only one I know of is dd. but it has lots of sharp edges so be careful. One thing I recently created that you may be interested in was a series of shell scripts which creates a repeatable build process with gentoo. You place the scripts on a flash USB memory stick, boot off of live CD, mount up the stick to /mnt/flash and after customization, run startup script. the primary advantage using the scripts is that you can create a predictable build process used to create your Master disk image. And unlike a hand created master disk image, you can tell exactly what you did and place the history in some configuration management environment.
they have rough edges but you are welcome to them if you want them.
---eric
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