[itdiscuss] nLite ISO imaging over the network with PXE

[Dayron Daugherty]

I've used clonezilla in the past. At the time I believe it was said on
their site NTFS support was "experimental" and good luck if you used it.
It worked great once when we imaged 15 desktops. Then we got another 15
desktops and imaged those in the same way. All seemed to go well while
imaging. Then all the images for the second round started having
stability issues, inaccessible files (regardless of owner or permission)
and other various odd problems. A couple of those imaged boxes couldn't
boot at all. A that point we ditched clonezilla.

I revisted their site when you referred to it and I don't see the
daunting "NTFS experimental" warning this time. I may give it another go
and set it up in between loading the nLite CD images. It would be a
winner anyway even if I finished te images before I got clonezilla
working. There will always be the need for imaging in the future. 

I miss G4U. I used it for many years. Then it seemed PC hardware got
ahead of G4U and I thinkthe last time we used it successfully was 2
years ago. Anyway... CLonezilla revisit time.  

I think I'll give this a go as well :
http://www.fogproject.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1


-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Justin Moore
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:13 PM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] nLite ISO imaging over the network with PXE

Take a look at Clonezilla. You can do PXE booting to capture and  
deploy images. The documentation/how-to at clonezilla.org for Ubuntu  
server will give you step by step info on how to set it up.

Justin Moore
IT Specialist


On Sep 25, 2008, at 11:25 AM, "Dayron Daugherty"  
<ddaugherty at precept.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>   Recently we had quite a few laptops donated to us. They are Dell
> x300s (no internal CD drives for these little guys) and we have only  
> one
> external CD\DVD drive that came with all of them.
>
> Because of time limitations I have created a boot Cd that works
> wonderfully (we just need XP on these with pre-loaded drivers). I have
> another USB CD drive I am booting too now so I'm up to 2 images at a
> time. However I'd like to push out the image to the remaining laptops
> via PXE is possible. Any thoughts, suggestions?
>
> I tried WDS in legacy mode and I'm having issues with it that I don't
> have time to trouble shoot. I can get my laptops to PXE boot, but I
> don't see the default XP install I was under the impression WDS was
> supposed to serve up when it pulls the XP source files when I first
> configured it.
>
> Anyway I can trouble shoot WDS in the mean time I image the laptops  
> via
> CD. I guess any suggestions with PXE\iso images and\or WDS legacy  
> would
> be much appreciatd.
>
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