[ale] Ghosting software

[Eric Z. Ayers]

It has its place...  If you need to 'manufacture' dozens of boxes for
a single order, you want something like that.


-Eric.
Jeff Hubbs writes:
 > 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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 > > >Nassar Carnegie
 > > >nassar at linuxgeneralstore.com
 > > >Linux General Store
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