[ale] Ghosting software

[Jeff Hubbs]

I'll also take the opportunity to throw in my standard Ghost admonition:

IMHO, you're playing with fire whenever you take a Ghost image from one
machine and implant it into another, regardless of OS and regardless of how
"identical" you think the target machine is to the source machine.  I would
surmise that the risk is less with Win95/98 than it would be with NT or
Linux, but if the target machines start acting weird every once in a while -
i.e., locking up, oopsing, or giving you the ever-helpful "Aiee,..." (I love
that one!) it could be because a minor difference in rev level within
chipset, etc. existed that might have otherwise made the running kernel,
driver, module, etc. do something a little differently.  One could mitigate
this a bit by recompiling kernel and modules post-Ghost, I'd imagine.

When I was researching the use of Ghost for NT across a set of supposedly
identical desktops, one thing I noticed was that a couple of them had
different CD-ROM drives from the rest.  I thought that this would be a
difference that probably wouldn't amount too much, but it made me wonder
what less-obvious differences might exist that could really cause a problem
that would be nearly impossible to actually attribute to one specific thing?

Having said that, do any of you think I'm being paranoid about this?  I'm
open to flames.

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Forsell [mailto:cforsell at roman.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 1:25 PM
> To: Nassar Carnegie; ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Ghosting software
> 
> 
> I recently used Norton Ghost 5.1D (personal edition) to ghost 
> a couple of
> SuSE machines.  Price was about $60.00 or so.
> If you look back at the ALE archives about a week ago, we had 
> a dsicussion
> concerning alternatives...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nassar Carnegie <nassar at linuxgeneralstore.com>
> To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 1:10 PM
> Subject: [ale] Ghosting software
> 
> 
> >Does anyone know of any ghosting software for Linux/FreeBSD?
> >
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