On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Kshitiz <[email protected]> wrote: > Want to know how to tie up an installation to a particular HDD.
Hi Kshitiz, You've already got bunch of suggestions but I think I should give my precious comments too! > We do Linux implementations and had seen people ghost the whole harddisks to > save on implementation charges. Currently we are using a commercial solution > that costs us dear and does not let us bring down the cost of deployment. > What we thus require is: Can't they use 'clonezilla' instead of ghost? > 1. We can tie up the installation with the hdd serial number with some > command / application that can... > a. Check the harddisk serial number before booting (may be through GRUB - > but to my knowledge, such a command does not exist within GRUB). > b. Delete the installed partition where we have installed our deployment > and applications if not matching. > c. Encrypt the data partition with a key that only we can decrypt. You should sell 'pre-installed' HDD. Problem solved! > 2. We can run our entire installation from a DVD provided that is tied with > an online system which will not allow the system to boot unless the key > matches with the one in our database. Bad idea. How do you connect Internet without booting system? -- Kartik Mistry Debian GNU/Linux Developer IRC: kart_ | Identica: @kartikm -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
