[itdiscuss] Images on a network

[Dayron Daugherty]

I don't know much about clonezilla. At the time I looked into it (long
ago) NTFS support was "experimental". Looking at it now it seems they've
made some changes to support it... or at least they talk about it more
J.   I have only read about Fog and I just haven't had time to test it. 

 

I have used G4U (Ghost for Linux) a great deal in the past, but dropped
it as it did not work well with some of the Dell PCs we started buying
(primarily any PC with just USB and no PS2 ports) and also seemed to
balk at SATA drives. But, this was quite some time ago. Prior to that I
liked it because it was straight forward and it's network image delivery
was via standard FTP.

 


If your PCs have PS2 ports and IDE drives, and you can configure an FTP
server quickly, G4U may be worth looking into. The only issue you may
find with it outside what I mentioned above is it does not dynamically
resize partitions on the imaged drive. If you take an image of an 80GB
drive, the drive you image to HAS to be 80GB or greater. If it's greater
than 80GB then you will wind up with the primary imaged partition of
80GB, then the remaining unused drive space. 

From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Darin Rohatinsky
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 3:21 PM
To: discuss at itdiscuss.org
Subject: [itdiscuss] Images on a network

 

We were donated a bunch of older towers that have the same hardware, and
I'd really like to image them over a small network for speed.  Does
anyone have any ideas?

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