I've found Ubuntu to be the best way to deal with windows drives :)
On 6/21/06, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 09:11 -0600, Stephen Ward wrote: > I'm looking for a convenient way to image a single hard drive and then > deploy it on out to a bunch of other drives with capacity greater than or > equal to that of the original. > > What I've come up with is to use the dd command to rip the raw data off the > drive and save it to a file. I'd like to store the file on a large Windows > share, so I'd probably mount the share with samba and then just tell dd to > save the file there. Then to deploy, I'd just do the reverse. > > Maybe I'd mix in a little gzip/gunzip piping as well. > > Any thoughts? Is there already some tool out there designed for this that > would save me a few steps? Google reveals one program that may or may not fill your needs: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ As for Windows, we have found that rather than image, we do automated installs using http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ . We've found it faster and more reliable than any imaging method, even altirus and landesk. It easily adapts to all disk sizes and a variety of hardware types. On most machines after booting on the network to a special installer program (dosemu and WindowsXp setup!), 20 minutes later we have a machine fully patched, with all the software we need installed, and attached to our Samba domain. I know that the CS department has some similar setup for rapidly deploying linux machines. I think it also may be a scripted install somehow, and that it netboots which is a real time saver. Michael > > Thanks, > Stephen > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
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