At 09:17 AM 8/27/2004, you wrote:
http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/
As Microsoft continues to dominate the world of personal computers,
Linux, the open source alternative, is rapidly gaining in popularity. We
discuss the system's appeal. Also, a fifty-year-old myth dies hard: why
airplanes
We need to image the machines as needed to preserve their ability to
serve the foreign students their windows goodies. If we do a Linux
install on the machines, we need to return the lab to its initial state.
How about booting linux diskless? Then you dont have to touch
the current install
of Linuxes, each and every one is bootable, on the same hard disc. The
command cp works for me b/c I never use hard linking. But I wonder
how ghost or DriveCopy/DriveImage handles hard linking?
The linux cp(1) command should preserve your hard links as well
if you use the appropriate flags.
Tim Newsham wrote:
How about booting linux diskless? Then you dont have to touch
the current install at all (other than putting a different boot
loader on it). Grub has netboot capabilities, does linux support
it? (My bet is yes).
It is a tri-boot lab. We use a grub to netboot from our
Quoting Tom_Gordon/RISE/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've partimage on netbooted thin clients to do imaging for windowsxp
partitions via ssh and nfs. restored 7 machines in under an hour.
hopefully partimage loses the stupid ntfs/experimental warning so it can
be completely unattented.
parted
