[ale] mass deployment

[Steve Long]

I have used Ghost for a few years now with Win9x and it has worked very
well.

I have a boot disk that accesses the network and I have Ghost and the image
file on the network.

It works best if you have an image tweaked out exactly how you want it to be
and as long as the pattern system is the same as the duplicates.

It will work on a CD but not as well.   You can even use it on a system
similar enough to boot as long as it is not too different.  I don't know
about an NT network, but on a Novell network you can have several systems
loading a disk image at the same time.

I assume it is the same.

All you have to do is boot using the network disk, login, run Ghost from the
network location and save the image as a file.

It's very easy, we set up 30 brand new systems in less than a day.

The biggest problem is that if you miss a program or setting when creating
the image, you have to adjust every copy after you load the image.
So spend a lot of time getting the image right before you make the drive
image!!!





----- Original Message -----
From: "Vernard Martin" <vernard at cc.gatech.edu>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Stuffed Crust" <pizza at shaftnet.org>
Cc: "Christopher Bergeron" <christopher at bergeron.com>; "Ale" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] mass deployment


> On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 20:11, Stuffed Crust wrote:
> > I can't comment on the Windows machines other than to say that Ghost and
> > Drive Image are reputed to both work quite well, providing the hardware
> > is reasonably similar.
> >
> > On the Linux front, in RedHat's case there's the  'kickstart' which is
> > essentially a 'stick a floppy in a machine, come back in an hour and
> > it's all done' process.  It's in the docs on redhat's site.  Other
> > distros probably have a similar mechanism.
>
> Another useful package that I can wholeheartedly endorse is
> SystemImager. Lets you take an existing linux box and push it out to
> other machines that boot from a floppy or cdrom. Very nice. We've used
> it the last couple years at the Linux Showcase to image the couple dozen
> machines that we use for the Linux in Action booth. Very nice. Latest
> version supports ext3 as well. Bewarned that it does have some issues
> with the grub boot loader but those will probably be worked out soon.
>
> V
> --
> Vernard Martin (vernard at cc.gatech.edu)
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