[ale] Ghost for Linux

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Believe it or not, I've been trying to craft a way to ask this without 
getting flamed for about 3 days.  In the past, I've used ghost and / or 
drive image to do this, but I'm getting tired of making nt bootdisks. 
Here's the skinny:

what I have:
  - for each 'type' (we have 3) of computer setup we have, build an 
image, and store it on a central location (currently, a linux server 
running samba)
  - anytime there is a suspected software error, or we get a new 
machine, boot the computer using an nt boot disk, and re-image the 
machine using the DOS version of ghost over the network (takes about 7 
minutes, much faster than troubleshooting).  Since all of the users 
profile data is stored on the server, they just log in, and boom, 
they're up and running

what I want:
  - run a knoppix terminal server so that machines can boot from the 
network (i.e. no need to carry around a bunch of network boot disks, use 
pxe boot)
  - when there is a suspected software problem, or we get a new machine, 
boot the computer into linux over the network into linux.  Run a *nix 
version of ghost / drive image / whatever (I've tried one [can't 
remember the name, an ncurses tool, but it was very slow, and created 
huge images, based on dd])pull down the image, boot into doze (or 
whatever os that machine was), and have the user back up and running.
--
registered linux user # 73046

Nathan J. Underwood
Cyber Tech Cafe' <><
http://www.cybertechcafe.net

Tom & JaVonn wrote:
> 	
> Anyone used g4l ?
> 
> Looking for a cheap or free way for clients to make images of their hard drive to external USB drives, even if they're NTFS format.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
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