On Dec 17, 2007 10:58 AM, Nicholas Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never tried this - as I don't use windows, but mondo/mindi can > backup a full system to CD/DVD ISOs, and can back up fat32/ntfs as > well. I assume you could boot a livecd that has mondo/mindi installed > on it, and backup your windows machine that will serve as an image, > burn the CDs, then boot off the CDs (or dvds) and restore the windows > machine. I use mondo/mindi for linux all the time and it works > wonderfully, more info here: http://www.mondorescue.org/ > > -- Nicholas
I'll look into Mondo, we may be able to adapt it to our needs. Let me explain at little more about what were doing and the need. Currently we configure XP to a certain point and then record it with Altiris. In our labs we have a server for deploying the image to the workstations via PXE. The hardware is identical so the image works for all stations. For our customers that we sell system to we provide the image on a CD/DVD depending on its size. Basically they boot of this disk and are prompted to press Y if they want to reimage the workstation. Deploying the image is significantly faster then actually reinstalling XP. The CD currently boots with the Windows 98 startup disk and then goes right into a script to begin the deployment with an Altiris client. As hardware is changing not only in workstations but also servers the Win98 is limited to what devices it can support. SCSI and SATA have never been an issue but newer SATA Raid is beginning to be problematic and so are newer NICs. We have begun playing with WinPE/BartPE, this actually images even faster then the previous method but it also has issues with SATA RAID. XP systems dropped from 20-30min to 6-10min. I'd really like to see us start using a Linux boot disk if possible to deploy an Windows image. Just a live CLI so to speak that I can adapt a script for. The live CD is the easy part. Boot up with minor hardware detection can be done with many distros out there. Its what can I capture the XP NTFS image with and then what can i use to deploy it. I'm curious if I could DD it to an .iso and then deploy it onto a new blank harddrive without issue. > > > On Dec 17, 2007 1:53 PM, Chris Louden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone has ever used a linux boot CD/DVD to deploy a > > Windows image? Basically boot a la H. Peter Anvin method and then > > deploy an Windows OS image iso or etc. in NTFS. > > > > > > -- > > [email protected] > > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
