[GRLUG] Looking for info/help for G4L...

[Tim Schmidt]

Sure...  I don't deploy identical images of hundreds of machines at
once, so my experience tends to be an image or two at a time.

dd pulls and pushes bits from / onto disks.  It takes input like so:

dd if=/input/file of=/output/file count=bytes

netcat and socat both redirect standard input / optput over network connections.

Optionally, bzip2 can be inlined to get rid of those pesky zeros.

The manpage of each utility will yield more specific information.

I have a handy 4 or 5 line bash script I use for mounting partitioned
loopback devices if anyone's interested...

--tim

On 3/30/06, Peter Eggenberger <peteegg at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Tim,
>
> Thanks.  I'm checking-out G4L to see how suitable it
> is for ghosting images of WinXX workstations.  I'll
> take a look at the tools you mentioned.  If you have
> more info that might be helpful I'd appreciate it.
>
> Pete
>
> PS - that was supposed to be "Still learNing..."  As
> in spelling...