[ale] dd for 'ghosting' ?

[Jeff Hubbs]

Patrick -

Can you describe the desired result at a higher level, i.e., what are you
trying to accomplish by "re-imaging" a local fat32 partition?

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tewkewl at mindspring.com [mailto:tewkewl at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 6:48 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] dd for 'ghosting' ?
> 
> 
> Does anyone have a solution for this?  We are trying to fight 
> a 'ghost' licensing fee issue for each of our 4000 PC's. (You 
> can imagine the cost for all those licenses!)
> 
> desired result: Be able to re-image a local fat32 partition 
> from an image of that partition stored on a linux partition.  
> Idea so far:
> Mount an nfs partition and do a dd from there.  But is dd 
> capable of copying over a fat32 partition from a linux/nfs 
> file system? And How would I be able to create an image of a 
> fat 32 partition to do this with?  Would it have to be an 
> iso?  Another idea is to have a linux partition on each 
> machine with a stored copy of the fat32 partition.  And 
> basically doing the same thing but removing the NFS part of it.
> If we do this though, we will need a way to 'update' the 
> image on the local linux partition when we want to make a change.
> 
> Is this even close to being feasable?  Is there a better way 
> to do this?
> 
> -Patrick
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