Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2005-05-15 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:50:28PM -1000, Randall Oshita wrote: Well done, and thanks for de-spamming the wiki. Pardon if this has been mentioned but what do you use for this? Most wikis store revisions to the wiki pages. So removing the spam manually is simply a matter of reverting to the

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2005-05-14 Thread Vince Hoang
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:01:30PM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: http://www.hosef.org/wiki/OpenSourceGhosting has incorrect information. The sentence: g4u has now become g4l. Is this a non-issue? The quote does not exist anywhere on the wiki and there has been no edit of that

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2005-05-14 Thread R. Scott Belford
Vince Hoang wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:01:30PM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: http://www.hosef.org/wiki/OpenSourceGhosting has incorrect information. The sentence: g4u has now become g4l. Is this a non-issue? The quote does not exist anywhere on the wiki and there has been no

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2005-05-14 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 07:28:17AM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: The quote does not exist anywhere on the wiki and there has been no edit of that particular page at least 90 days. My mistake. I was using http://www.hosef.org/wiki/RecentChanges?days=90 and not

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2005-05-14 Thread R. Scott Belford
Vince Hoang wrote: using and does not list changes categorized as minor edits. It was enough to clean out changes by ÀñíçéàÖãæôßøü, so I thought nothing more of it. Oh well. Thanks, Vince. This is a prime example of the many tasks you thanklessly undertake for HOSEF. It is not an accident

RE: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2005-05-14 Thread Randall Oshita
Well done, and thanks for de-spamming the wiki. Pardon if this has been mentioned but what do you use for this? Thanks. Randall

[LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2005-05-12 Thread R. Scott Belford
We had a long discussion about this, and a member took it upon his self to create a wiki page. I have been advised a few times that it is grossly inaccurate. Any desire to stay on top of this would be most appreciated. The wiki page http://www.hosef.org/wiki/OpenSourceGhosting has

[LUAU] open source ghosting/wiki syntax?

2004-09-21 Thread TB
I was interested ( slightly confused) by the discussion of open source ghosting. I've put a page on the wiki (http://www.hosef.org/wiki/OpenSourceGhosting) to try to condense/verify/expand on what I learned in that discussion. The page is just a sketch at the moment, I plan to do some actual

Re: [LUAU] open source ghosting/wiki syntax?

2004-09-21 Thread Tom_Gordon/RISE/HIDOE
@lists.hosef.org cc Subject [LUAU] open source ghosting/wiki syntax? I was interested ( slightly confused) by the discussion of open source ghosting. I've put a page on the wiki (http://www.hosef.org/wiki/OpenSourceGhosting) to try to condense/verify/expand on what I learned in that discussion

Re: [LUAU] open source ghosting/wiki syntax?

2004-09-21 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:46:35 -0700 (PDT), TB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, one of the URLs I try to link to has a ~ in it, and the wiki software elides it, breaking the URL. Anyone know how to fix it? Try using a second tilde: http://foo.bar/~~baz/ -Vince

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-31 Thread Tim Newsham
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

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-31 Thread Tim Newsham
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.

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-31 Thread R. Scott Belford
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

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-31 Thread Jon Reynolds
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

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-26 Thread Hawaii Linux Institute
Nathan A. Keirn wrote: Actually I guess this is where my Windows Administrative knowledge will come in. All ghost does Windows wise is run sysprep, sysprep is a free utility that is part of W2k and XP. Sysprep allows you to enter License key, Net Bios, and basically everything else that is

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-26 Thread Andrew Maddox
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Hawaii Linux Institute (wayne) wrote: no more than a single cp command. Recently, however, Win4Lin seems to have problems with the 2.6.7 kernel. Perhaps it's time to get rid of Windows for good. (But a open-sources Ghost clone for Windows is still a great idea and I will

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-25 Thread bmusson
: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 7:30 pm Subject: Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting there are OSS utilities that can do ftp and http install of system image for Windows and *nix, but still can't re-partition during restore. So, OSS utilities can do the same except resizing the partition

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-25 Thread Tom_Gordon/RISE/HIDOE
discussion list luau@lists.hosef.org cc Subject Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting Hi, Just a FYI for everyone in HOSEF. I spoke with Scott last week about donating a free copy of Ghost (9.0) to HOSEF and have ordered it through my corporation (Symantec). I should be able to deliver it next week

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-25 Thread Tom_Gordon/RISE/HIDOE
/Unix Advocates/Users Hawaiian community discussion list luau@lists.hosef.org To luau@lists.hosef.org cc Subject Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting Actually I guess this is where my Windows Administrative knowledge will come in. All ghost does Windows wise is run sysprep, sysprep

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-25 Thread R. Scott Belford
Thanks, All, for the ideas, insight, and initiative. Allow me to put some focus on our objectives so we can adequately harness all this expertise. HOSEF has donated an entire lab to McKinley. It is a tri-boot lab. Win98 lite is run during the day to serve foreign language classes their

[LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-24 Thread Nathan A. Keirn
A few weeks ago at the Wednesday meeting we had a brief discussion about needing the enterprise edition of Norton's Ghost utility. I thought that there has to be a solution for this that is free. I stumbled across this link with almost no searching, but I know it is not exactly what we are looking

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-24 Thread MonMotha
Nathan A. Keirn wrote: A few weeks ago at the Wednesday meeting we had a brief discussion about needing the enterprise edition of Norton's Ghost utility. I thought that there has to be a solution for this that is free. I stumbled across this link with almost no searching, but I know it is not

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-24 Thread MonMotha
there are OSS utilities that can do ftp and http install of system image for Windows and *nix, but still can't re-partition during restore. So, OSS utilities can do the same except resizing the partition on the fly. Almost all filesystems commonly used on linux have a tool for resizing,

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-24 Thread Nathan A. Keirn
Actually I guess this is where my Windows Administrative knowledge will come in. All ghost does Windows wise is run sysprep, sysprep is a free utility that is part of W2k and XP. Sysprep allows you to enter License key, Net Bios, and basically everything else that is entered during setup. So from