At 08:34 02/19/2005 -0500, RBW1 wrote: > >In a never ending quest to marginalize the impact of fundamentally >broken and vulnerable MSWin OS's on the admin tasks a network requires I >have been looking at these two: >http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/#start >http://ubcd4win.com/howto.htm > >Has anyone used BartPE? any problems? > >I am looking at this as both a build as a type of Windoze "Distro" with >native virus cleaning but also a native environment for the Ghost >utility. This may be good where you want a non-Linux lab tech to "just >stick this CD in and reboot and call me if it doesn't work" no brainer >Ghost CD and if it really doesn't work then you know to start looking at >hardware. > >Anyway this looks like an interesting way to keep the time consuming >unwanted OS specific network BS at arms length.
I haven't tried the BartPE, but I think you could get the same effect using a custom Knoppix coupled with F-Prot for the virus detection/cleaning and Mondo for making backups or maybe Partimg. The only tricky portion is trusting the NTFS file system access in write mode, since it is still claimed as alpha. The Ghost utility had a DOS version that you could use off a floppy disk. If you wanted a version that could work off a bootable CDROM, you could use the technique that I described on the Wiki about how to create a bootable Partition Magic CDROM. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
