A Very quick and easy way to setup Dozens of PCs or nodes...

[mdavis@kieser.net]

Hi,


I worked for a company that had 20+ machines of various 
OS/Hardware flavours (Solaris, Linux, NT) and needed to be able to 
set up any number of machine configurations within a few hours. 
We tried Ghost and a couple of others, but we came up against the 
compression and configuration issues you've mentioned... in the 
end, I wrote a very simple Sockets-based system, with a Linux 
boot disk and using dd/gzip and achieved a better result!


If anyone's interested, I could dig out the various bits of code and pass them on.


Mike Davis



>Date sent:      	Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:38:53 -0400

>From:           	Christopher Snyder <<csnyder1@cwix.com>

>Subject:        	A Very quick and easy way to setup Dozens of PCs or nodes...

>To:             	beowulf@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov

>

><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>Hey there,

<FontFamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>A great product I use for quick duplication of PC setups is called 
<FontFamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>GHOST.

<FontFamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>><underline><color><param>0000,0000,FF00</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/index.html</underline></color>

<FontFamily><param>Ariy><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>Trial Copy of Ghost:

<FontFamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>

<FontFamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>><Fons, Ghost Knowledge Base:

<FontFamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>><underline><color><param>0000,0000,FF00</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/ghost/kbase_ghost.html</underline></color> 

<FontFamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>><FontFamily><paramimes New Roman</param><bigger>Ghost builds a compressed image of a Hard Drive, sector by 
<FontFamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>><FontFamily><paramimes New Roman</param><bigger>sector, at very fast speeds.

<FontFamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>The compression doesn't work for Unix / Linux though...this will 
<FontFamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>slow you down a bit - maybe all of you guys and gals could e-
<FontFamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>mail Norton and ask them to work on the compression for 
<FontFamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>Linux!!! [PLEASE!]

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