When I worked as a network administrator at my university we developed
an "imaging" system called JACAL that does this same task except it
does it for Windows NT and Linux and can create dual-boot systems.
It's been in use there for a couple of years.
Basic idea, put a floppy in the drive, type in the machine name, come
back an hour later and have your dual boot system fully configured and
useable. NOTE: This DOESN'T disk-dupe NT, it actually scripts the
ENTIRE installation so that you don't get the standard ghosting
problems inherent in Windows NT.
We presented it at USENIX Lisa-NT is Seattle last year and it was
pretty well received. It's pretty Taylor U. specific but we have
released our code and scripts at:
jacal.sourceforge.net
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Joel Martin -- System Software Engineer
Compaq Computer Corporation
110 Spit Brook Rd, ZKO3-3/U14
Nashua, NH 03062-2698
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:53:05PM -0500, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> At 09:29 AM 3/15/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > I just saw this for the first time: http://systemimager.org
> >
> >This is an excellent tool for maintaining large beowulf clusters.
> >It's author, Brian Finley, is a VA Linux guy.
>
> I knew that this was yet another Good Thing (tm) to come out of VA. IMHO,
> this is better than either Kickstart or Ghost (more for the windows people
> anyway).More than Beowulf, this could be used to install and maintain
> entire environments. If a sysadmin team used this to build all of the
> desktops in their charge, the first benefit would be a major saving of
> time. But beyond that, it would allow the sysadmins to control and
> customize the desktops from the beginning, and to update all desktops
> quickly and easily. All it would take is a cron job on the desktop to check
> the golden client on a daily, or weekly basis to check for updates. You
> could also use this to enforce security policies, etc. IMNSHO, this system
> would not only improve the ease of life for a sysadmin, but it would
> improve the *QUALITY* of life, as well.
>
> On the server side, you could roll out an entire infrastructure with ease.
> You could install a pre-configured OS on a hundred systems all at once, and
> then just do the function-specific tweaking on each machine. I like it. My
> hat's off to VA for this one.
>
> Kenny
>
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