Re: Advanced hard disk mirroring!
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
[excellent post snipped]
A really simple way to do this is to use multicast ghost.
Make a boot floppy with a packet driver to suit the NIC
Use it or 50 copies of it to boot the 50 workstations and run ghost
Run dhcp somewhere.
Run ghostsrv somewhere
and do the whole lab at once.
Lindsay
> Onno Ebbinge wrote:
>
> > I'm a sysadmin and have two Debian GNU/Linux potato servers and 50
> > windows 95 workstations under my care.
> >
> > My problem is with the 50 workstations:
> >
> > (the 50 workstations have the same hardware)
> >
> > I want to install ONE workstation and then mirror the hard disk to
> > all other workstations.
> >
> > The first time I did it was with ghost and I hooked up the installed
> > hard disk to every client and mirrored it... Not a nice job to do
> > and there must be a better way do do it! I know that ghost CAN use
> > NETBIOS connections and such but I don't know how to boot it from a
> > 1.44" flop and then use ghost.
> >
> > My question:
> >
> > I want to boot the workstation to be installed from a floppy with
> > Linux or DOS. Then I want to make a connection to my server (or the
> > installed workstation) and mirror the hard disk from a file (or
> > hard disk).
> >
> > Frankly I don't care what is used or how it's being done (Linux/DOS
> > with dd/ghost or something else!) but I don't want to hook-up all 50
> > workstations again...
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas,
> >
> > Onno
>
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> Jens B. Jorgensen
> jens.jorgensen@tallan.com
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