-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 25 August 2003 11:13 am, Jim Ray wrote: > agreed. i have norton enterprise ghost at 5 client sites. works like a > charm. i haven't heard anyone mention a linux-based solution.
It's not imaging, per se, but for Red Hat Linux or Mandrake I'm a big fan of Kickstart. Like I said, it's not strictly imaging but it does an installation for each individual system in a reproduceable fashion that is perhaps more tolerant of differences in hardware from machine to machine, and leaves a system in a more usable state than Ghosting a Windows NT/2000/XP box (where you have to enter serial numbers, join the domain, generate a SID etc. before you can use the box) Kickstart does require some more sysadmin smarts than Ghost. And if you can do shell scripting and/or package RPM's yourself, so much the better. Kickstart takes longer to load a machine, but on the upside it won't cripple your network. Ghost uses multicast and will literally bring your whole LAN segment to its knees for the 5-10 minutes that it takes to load a group of systems. Kickstart is unicast and generally will bog down only the kickstart server provided the client and server are both on the same switch. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3rc2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/SivcYPuF4Zq9lvYRAupWAJ0YK7RNOY+JUlPZrB/S9kzoa+pfQACg0PU0 B4yal4UUoIzqsjlrlH0kHyw= =d1xY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
