NT Workstation duplication

[Schlomo Schapiro]

I would LOVE to use Linux.

But I did not yet find a program that does the following:

- Multicasting
- Adapt partition tables & sizes on the fly (since not all disks are
1000% identical)
- change NT name & SID (from within Linux, and don't mention dosemu,
since then I could already use real DOS)
- copy only USED sectors (and not all the empty space)
- comression (fast/high)

Please, please point me to such a program (ghost for linux ?) and I will
immediately use it.

Schlomo


On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Seth Vidal wrote:

> > My first instinct is to say use Unix on SPARCs (or some other real
> > hardware), but I'm guessing that there might be a way to do that for
> > NT, although not one that I'd trust.Create a 5 meg partition (or
> > something about that size) with DOS on it, and network bootup things
> > etc, and a copy of your imaging software.Then create an at command
> > to change the default boot to be that DOS partition instead of NT (NT
> > should be the default boot in the image), and reboot the machine.
> > When it boots to dos, it runs the imaging software automagically, and
> > you've got a clean NT machine.Now that I've come up with this idea,
> > I think I'm going to try it out of a couple of machines in our LAB.
> > I don't know how PCrdist works, but it used to be a windows app.We
> > had it run on logout, and you could probably have it run from an AT
> > command as well.
> 
> do this same thing with lilo and a small linux partition instead of dos
> and you're life is even easier.
> 
> you can do all sorts of crazy things.
> 
> as well the access to raw devices (ie cp systemimage.file to /dev/hda1) is
> very nice.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 

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Schlomo Schapiro
Computation Authority
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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