NT Workstation duplication

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Vidal [mailto:skvidal at phy.duke.edu]
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 10:56 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject: RE: NT Workstation duplication
> 
> 
> > 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.


O.K. this is getting WAY offtopic, but how well does a dd imagefile compress
with gzip?
	Greg