[ale] Two questions

[Jeff Lightner]

You might have a look at Mondo if you're making an exact image.  It will
let you create a DVD (assuming you have a DVD writer) that will boot and
install exactly the same way.   We used it here and were able to move an
image from one server to another (Mondo even discovered the fact the new
server had more space allocated than the old one.)

It doesn't seem to be quite so hot for building systems that aren't
exact clones however.  

Alternatively, you might want to look at PXE boot and Kickstart.  The
ALE NE presentation tomorrow night is about Kickstart so going to that
may give you more information on it.

I'd stay away from Ghost.  If you're just duplicating one disk to
another you can do it with a Gparted Live CD.  In fact when I needed to
move my WindozeXP laptop from 20GB to 80GB the version of Ghost we had
wouldn't even do NTFS but I was able to do it with a Gparted Live CD in
very short order.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Atlanta Geek
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:59 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] Two questions

First, thanks everyone for the snmp guidance from last week.  It was a
combination of several things.  Among them not having snmptrapd
configured to accept external traps and a long forgotten firewall was
blocking as well.
I have two new questions.
We are trying to take an image of a Linux server that we will clone
over and over again on our appliances.  anyone have any suggestions.
Also has anyone worked with Avnet before. They suggested I use ghost
11 to clone machines but I see conflicting stories on the internet on
how well ghost supports linux file systems.

Anyway I appreciate any response.
Thanks
-Tommie

P.S. Doug that  lost packet/resending packets issue was caused by a
bad router. Linksys blows, and not in the good way either.


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