[K12OSN] Open Source Imaging software

[Abraham Rolick]

Oops!  I just noticed the difference between "g4u" and "g4l".  Will go
down the "g4l" path now :)

-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Abraham Rolick
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 10:46 AM
To: Support list for open source software in schools.
Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Open Source Imaging software

Unfortunately I've already attempted the g4u 2.2 ISO CD that's available
for download on their web site.  It dies when trying to detect the SATA
drive in these new Optiplex 745 workstations.  I may be doing a little
more digging to get things going ;P

Any other alternatives?  Thanks :)

-Abe

-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Calvin Dodge
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 10:41 AM
To: Support list for open source software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Open Source Imaging software

On 1/19/07, Abraham Rolick <ARolick at fillmore.k12.ca.us> wrote:
> Sorry if this has been a thread in the past .. but I'm in a real
predicament at the moment ;P
>
> Our imaging software has worked for some time, but just today decided
that it doesn't really want to keep working anymore :)  Have any of you
used an open source imaging software with any degree of success?
Unfortunately, this is for imaging a bunch of Windows XP workstations
... but I have no control over that at this point.

No experience with "Ghost 4 Linux"
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l), but it might do the job.

I don't believe it "understands" NTFS partitions, so it would copy an
entire partition (mebbe a bit smaller with compression), which means
lots of storage would be required for backups.

Install images would be rather smaller - you could make a standard
install image in a few gigabytes, then expand it to the size of the
target drive after installing it (I use qtparted on Knoppix).

"Ghost 4 Linux" has a modified Knoppix CD image, so you could probably
boot with that CD, do the backup or restore, then reboot to the Evil
Empire (tm) OS.

Calvin

_______________________________________________
K12OSN mailing list
K12OSN at redhat.com
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>

_______________________________________________
K12OSN mailing list
K12OSN at redhat.com
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>