Re: [sisuite-users] Using SystemImager in a school environment

2007-07-19 Thread Bas van der Vlies
Thomas Krause wrote: 2.) It would be nice, if I could mark a client for reinstallation so that it will get a new image the next time it boots. However once the client has a new image, I want to automatically restart the client and unmark it on the server, so that it will not receive the

Re: [sisuite-users] Using SystemImager in a school environment

2007-07-19 Thread Andrea Righi
Thomas Krause wrote: Hello again, 1.) I now installed SystemImager in a test environment (debian server + kubuntu client) and so far it looks very promising. However at least in my test environment SI does always create a client from scratch (recreate all partitions and files), instead of

Re: [sisuite-users] Using SystemImager in a school environment

2007-07-19 Thread Paul Greidanus
Thomas Krause wrote: Hello again, 1.) I now installed SystemImager in a test environment (debian server + kubuntu client) and so far it looks very promising. However at least in my test environment SI does always create a client from scratch (recreate all partitions and files), instead of

Re: [sisuite-users] Using SystemImager in a school environment

2007-07-18 Thread Thomas Krause
to install SI on our real server? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Andrea Righi Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007 10:45 An: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [sisuite-users] Using SystemImager in a school environment Thomas

Re: [sisuite-users] Using SystemImager in a school environment

2007-07-18 Thread Patrick Dowler
that I could use to install SI on our real server? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Andrea Righi Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007 10:45 An: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [sisuite-users] Using SystemImager

Re: [sisuite-users] Using SystemImager in a school environment

2007-07-18 Thread Thomas Krause
An: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [sisuite-users] Using SystemImager in a school environment autoinstall from CD /network/etc does just that - a clean install. 1. make changes on your golden client 2. run si_prepareclient on the golden client 3. run si_getimage on the image server

Re: [sisuite-users] Using SystemImager in a school environment

2007-07-17 Thread Andrea Righi
Thomas Krause wrote: 1. Do you think that SI is suitable for this kind of scenario? Yes. 2. If I understand correctly SI is file-based, meaning that unlike typical imaging programs (ghost, etc.) it copies files (or better: file deltas) to the server and not whole partitions. If

Re: [sisuite-users] Using SystemImager in a school environment

2007-07-16 Thread Gumby
another great tool for maintaining systems is puppet.we use system image to get a base image on the system then puppet to configure the system. Makes for easy upgrades. just reimage the system and let puppet put everything back on the system. works great if you do all your package adds etc

[sisuite-users] Using SystemImager in a school environment

2007-07-15 Thread Thomas Krause
Hello, I recently became the administrator of a small school. The school has basically a single computer room with about 30 computers and another dozen computers distributed in different class rooms. Since I'm doing this job on my free time I want to minimize the amount of time I have to