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

[Godwin]

Post away Tim... :-)



On 3/30/06, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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...
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