tor, 14,.04.2005 kl. 14.02 +0000, skrev Joe Smith: > Is there readily availble or does anyone have a boot image that will boot > to a command prompt ready to run software imaging on a local hard disk?
Have a look at http://www.partimage.org/ Or: More LTSP-oriented, I did do something myself. It might not be what you end up using, as it is in a somewhat crude state, only supposed to work for my own purposes. It does work though. Note: The rest of this post is somewhat technical, but that would be needed to give a descent description. The main problem with the solution is that the default LTSP kernel doesn't support DMA for disks, so disk transfer is slow. Compiling a new LTSP kernel should fix this (mail me one if you do). Otherwise it works fine. Uses SSH for uploading/downloading the disk images. Main principle: From any LTSP shell, you can do: modprobe ide-disk dd if=/dev/hda1 | gzip -c - | ssh -l imagesaccount server "dd of=/path/on/server/image23.img.gz" The rest is all about wrapping this up in a user interface. I did this through some dirty scripts. It isn't really in a distributable state though. It is tailored for our particular setup, all messages are in Norwegian, and the implementation is a mixture of one client-side BASH script, one server-side BASH script, and one server-side python script. I now have more knowledge about shell scripting and should have merged the two bash scripts to one client side script etc., but this is what I currently have and use. Conclusion: It is not ready made, you must get your hands dirty with scripting to use it, but at least it might give you a starting point. To install: Unpack somewhere on server, copy diskimage.localside to the /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/bin/diskimage. Then configure lts.conf to allow a shell screen, and use the diskimage command to launch. (to launch automatically, call it in a screen.d script) Location: http://fredtun.no/ltsp/diskimage.tar.bz2 // Dag Sverre ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
