The reason I am all of a sudden interested in a Ghost-like image cloning
program such as g4u or Partition Image is that, during my recent trip to
Taiwan, I installed a Linux PC (Red Hat 8.0) for my mother-in-law, who
never even dared to touch a computer in her life.
With the Red Hat Linux PC (remember, there are very big differences
between versions 7.3 and 8 of Red Hat), not only did she no longer have
the fear (believe me, Microsoft Windows is VERY intimidating, especially
for old people), she was also very impressed and instantly liked it.
(In fact, she liked the Linux PC so much that, after I left, she bought
herself a nice LCD monitor as well as applied for an ADSL
subscription--so that she can better manage her stock portfolio).
Without Linux, my mother-in-law most likely would have never had the
"privilege" to use a computer. Linux has removed the psychological as
well as generational barrier. And I don't think her experience will be
unique.
One of the most impressive features of Red Hat 8.0 is its multi-lingual
capability. For example, you can set up a plurality of users, each with
a different locale such as English, Taiwanese (traditional Chinese),
Chinese (simplified Chinese), Japanese, Korean, etc. In the part of the
world where we should be most interested in, this setup is guaranteed to
impress everyone.
What I have in mind is that it should not be too difficult to develop an
optimized and "minimalized" Red Hat 8.0 system, then clone the image
into a CD-R and make the disk bootable. Thereafter, when booted from
the CD-ROM, it will execute scripts which will copy the disk image onto
the free space.
Warren Togami wrote:
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Yep, several people I know who use ghost for mass deployment of NT and
other DOS family systems swear by it and tell me that they haven't
found any application "magic" numbers it couldn't handle (or that the
ghost development team couldn't make handle within a few days of
reporting a problem).
MonMotha> However, on UNIX, I can't think of anything a specialized
MonMotha> program would offer over dd and netcat :)
Maybe it just offers a degree of branding "security" for the novice
user and perhaps a little cleverness at figuring out things like the
blocksizes.
Bruce
Perhaps my understanding of these tools is inaccurate, but I thought
that nothing Open Source came close to the capabilities of tools like
Ghost. For example, we have nothing like the multicasting features.
None of our tools are nearly as polished either.
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