[ale] dd for 'ghosting' ?

[Patrick]

Well.... when a machine crashes or if we want to bring the user's machine
'back to reallity' we want to bring the entire fat32 partition over and have
the machien reboot like it was just cleanly installed... (kinda of what
ghost does for the win platform)

-Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Hubbs <Jhubbs at niit.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <tewkewl at mindspring.com>; <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 9:50 AM
Subject: RE: [ale] dd for 'ghosting' ?


> 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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