NT Workstation duplication

[Greg Dickie]

Personally I like this discussion since I too need a solution for this. Its a
topic that seems to have no clear solution and pops up on the clearcase users
group mailing list quite a lot as well. Maybe a good opportunity for an IPO? ;-)

Greg

On 31-Jan-00 Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> You see,
> 
> all these hacks don't compete with complete programs like ghost since they
> don't integrate all the functions under one roof. In the LAB routine work
> I of course look much more for stability and clear things than a big
> collection of hacks. Also every dopey can use ghost while you need a unix
> pro to maintain the hack-collection.
> 
> What could be more interesting is the PEXE package for Linux that allows
> you to make intelligent per-need installations of clients.
> 
> Schlomo
> 
> PS: 
> 
> Dear Samba-NTDOM list !
> 
> I don't know wether such talk is interesting for you (it could be since
> most people who look at samba & NT also have to fight the installation
> problem). If this topic is out of place and annoying, let's move it to
> private mailings.
> 
> Luke ?
> 
>  On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
>> > 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)
>> try this out:
>> sfdisk - scriptable fdisk - useful tool - lets you do all sorts of crazy
>> sizings.
>> 
>> or gnu parted - lets you edit and resize parititions
>> 
>> > - change NT name & SID (from within Linux, and don't mention dosemu,
>> > since then I could already use real DOS)
>> still a hassle - I'm using newsid after the fact - not very automated yet.
>> 
>> > - copy only USED sectors (and not all the empty space)
>> yeah. I know.
>> my workaround
>> small C: on the NT machines (~500mb) (NTFS)
>> large d: on the NT machines - VFAT
>> the vfat drives will copy cleanly from nfs->vfat dirs w/o a problem -then
>> its only used space.
>> copy the whole NTFS drive from an image - (compressed only about 150-200mb
>> transfer)
>> 
>> > - comression (fast/high)
>> gzip -9 - nothing but the best. :) (actually its pretty quick on a
>> slow-ass network.
>> 
>> > Please, please point me to such a program (ghost for linux ?) and I will
>> > immediately use it.
>> 
>> sorry - no program just some hacks.
>> 
>> -sv
>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Schlomo Schapiro
> Computation Authority
> Hebrew University of Jerusalem
> 
> Tel: ++972 / 2 / 65-84404
> email: schapiro at clerk.pi.huji.ac.il

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