[ale] Two questions

[Dylan Northrup]

My confusion on Avnet... I meant to say Acronis.

As far as Ghost, we've had no issue.  We created a bootable CD
(netbootdisk.com + nero/whatever cd-burning software you have) with
apporpriate network driver support, booted from it, ran ghost and stored the
image on a file server.  Then, we can either use the same CD to boot up and
restore from the file server to a new box, or we can use netbootdisk + ghost
image + ghost.exe + gdisk.exe + a batch file to have automated restoration
of the image onto a box (in the instance you have to hand a turn-key
solution over to someone instead of doing it yourself).

Hope this helps.

A long time ago, (05.03.08), in a galaxy far, far away, Atlanta Geek wrote:

:=Hi Dylan.
:=Avnet is our server provider and our eventual goal is for them to
:=install our image at their site and ship the server.
:=They suggested I use Ghost 11.
:=A couple more questions about ghost 11. Does Ghost 12 work as well?
:=Is there anything online detailing how to do this.  since the server
:=is linux I assume I need some sort of windows or dos boot disk.
:=
:=On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Dylan Northrup <docx at io.com> wrote:
:=> We use Ghost 11 with little issue.  We don't have any LVM stuff setup, so
:=>  it's a vanilla single disk setup, but it works well for us.
:=>
:=>  There were other alternatives we tried but we weren't able to find something
:=>  that worked as simply as Ghost (and since we're going to be doing this in an
:=>  assembly line fashion, ease of use was paramount so we didn't mind paying
:=>  for the software).  I will check out Avnet to see what benefits, if any, it
:=>  has over Ghost.  It does sound very interesting.
:=>
:=>  A long time ago, (05.03.08), in a galaxy far, far away, Atlanta Geek wrote:
:=>
:=>  :=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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:=>  Dylan Northrup - docx at io.com - http://www.io.com/~docx/
:=>  "Harder to work, harder to strive, hard to be glad to be alive, but it's
:=>   really worth it if you give it a try." -- Cowboy Mouth, 'Easy'
:=>
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"Harder to work, harder to strive, hard to be glad to be alive, but it's
 really worth it if you give it a try." -- Cowboy Mouth, 'Easy'