Paul Greidanus wrote: > * - Ok, it's "possible" but it's hugely hackish.. i.e. you can use the > autoinstall script to dd out a disk image onto a raw partition, but it's > not likely to be very effective. Or you could use something like ghost, > and image it that way, but again, hack.
The "raw partition copy" has never been the preferred approach in SystemImager (for a lot of reasons), but it could be an interesting path to explore. With raw partition copies (I've in mind something a little bit more structured than an ugly hack) we could easily implement the support for many currently unsupported OSes: Solaris, Windows, *BSD, ... we could always use a Linux installing system (the well-tested BOEL kernel + initrd.img approach) to image the clients with different OSes and write images using a simple "dd". And all the currently available transports to download the images from the image server could be used at zero-cost. For example the integration with the BitTorrent transport would be really simple: actually BitTorrent supports only regular files (and directories) and an image generated by a raw partition copy *is* a regular file. The problems come when we need to do something *inside* the image at the end of the imaging process, for example the generation of a random SID for Windows clients, the network configuration, etc. Moreover there is the heterogeneity problem: the "raw copy" approach probably will not work with clients that have a different hardware. Well, just some thoughts for the future... -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
