Fwd: Re: Install to disk w/school's NT present??
>At my school we did this an a couple computers. The admin's used Ghost,
>which makes
>an image of the complete drive. There's no hope of saving linux the way it
>does it.
>We lost everything when the end of the term came around, but it was still
>exciting to
>install Debian via ftp, no disks required. What you could do is get a
>separate drive
>to stick in one of the machines to use as a backup/mirror that you can get a
>fresh
>copy of linux from when ever the admin comes around and refreshes your
>computer. I'm
>sure you could make a DOS boot disk that would automatically run fips, and
>another
>boot disk that get a new linux image. Anything is possible with Linux!
>
>Kent West wrote:
>
>> At 09:20 PM 2/3/1999 -0800, kaynjay@igalaxy.net wrote:
>> >I'm fighting the system at my community college to get Debian installed on
>> >five (of 20) lab computers which are maintained by the school's Info. Tech.
>> >group. Windows rules. The lab computers are occasionally wiped clean
and a
>> >fresh image of NT installed off the LAN.
>> >
>> >I want to repartition the drives, put Linux in alongside NT, and boot to it
>> >(most likely off a boot disk) when teaching a computational chemistry
>> >course.
>> >
>> >Does anyone have experience with a setup similar to this? Am I being naive
>> >about doing this? Would there be problems with the disk wipe/image update
>> >process? (Disrupting the status-quo is the big issue here.)
>>
>> It depends on the software used to do the wipe/update. If it just copies
>> the files from a network server to a local drive, I don't see a problem. If
>> it's copying an image using something like Ghost, you may find that your
>> Linux partitions get wiped out. At any rate, I don't think it'll hurt the
>> status-quo any to experiment; the worst thing I foresee happening is that
>> your Linux setup gets wiped out; the absolute worst thing I can foresee is
>> that the one (or 5) machines you experiment on will have to be manually
>> reset back to the condition they were in. I'd say, "Go for it."
>>
>> >Also, is there any issue about the root partition being more than a Gb
in on
>> >the IDE drive?? (The PC's are IBM-brand 133 or 166 pentiums, "fairly"
>> >recent ...). I was thinking about simply chopping off the back end of the
>> >current, single partition. (I don't know if NT has a defrag function,
>> >though.)
>> >
>> >Thanks for any help with this.
>> >
>> >Kenward Vaughan
>> >--
>> >-----------------------------------------------------------
>> >kaynjay@igalaxy.net
>> >-----------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> >
>> >--
>> >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org <
>> >/dev/null
>>
>> --
>> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org <
>/dev/null
>
begin:vcard
n:Kerkhoff;Wim
x-mozilla-html:FALSE
url:www.canadianhomes.net/wim
adr:;;;;;;
version:2.1
email;internet:kerkhoff@uniserve.com
title:Student
note:http://www.canadianhomes.net/wim
x-mozilla-cpt:;-18272
fn:Wim Kerkhoff
end:vcard
Reply to: