[ale] Ghosting Linux

[Charles Marcus]

Don't forget about:

System Imager (http://systemimager.org/)

and

mkCDrec (http://mkcdrec.ota.be/)

On 9/5/2002 3:50 PM, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> What about http://www.openimage.org/ ?  I haven't tested it yet, but it
> looks promising.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 3:47 PM
> To: Denny Chambers
> Cc: Fletch; Atlanta Linux User Group (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [ale] Ghosting Linux
> 
> mkkisckstart will create the kickstart file from an existing
> installation. It works best to use an NFS mounted drive with the entire
> contents of the RPMS directories from all the RedHat CD's to act as
> kickstart server.
> 
> I've done 24 machines in under 2 hours like this :)
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 14:53, Denny Chambers wrote:
>> I thought there was a way to make a "Golden Image" from and existing 
>> system, and make KickStart use that as the install image. I know HP
> has 
>> a tool for this (HP Ignite), maybe that is what I am thinking about.
>> 
>> Denny
>> 
>> Fletch wrote:
>> 
>> >>>>>>"Denny" == Denny Chambers <dchambers at snapserver.com> writes:
>> >>>>>>            
>> >>>>>>
>> >
>> >    Denny> Also what distro are you using? Redhat has a tool called
>> >    Denny> KickStart, I believe you can install a machine from a
>> >    Denny> previously made image. Not totally sure about this, but
>> >    Denny> worth a look.
>> >
>> >
>> >        KickStart is more for automated installing on a fresh
> machine,
>> >not realy backing it up.  Basically everything you specify with the
>> >GUI installer you can just write up a kickstart config and it'll
>> >automagically run the install without prompting a hyooman for any
>> >information.  More the thing you'd use to mass produce several
>> >identical boxen than back them up.
>> >
>> >  
>> >
>> 
>> 
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