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Re: Is there a Linux ghost?
- To: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>, IGLU <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
- Subject: Re: Is there a Linux ghost?
- From: Daniel Feiglin <dilogsys(at-nospam)inter.net.il>
- Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 17:51:28 +0300
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- Organization: Dilog Computers Ltd.
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Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Hi
>
> One thing that was missing from your summary: how is partimag? (it is not
> a simple dd-based thing).
I manged to compile it (and later I found a diskette image with it on board). It
looks to be functionally equivalent to dd, through an old-style Redhat text
menu. I'm not "set up" yet, so I couldn't do anything with it.
>
> Also, see below
>
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Daniel Feiglin wrote:
>
>
>>Topic Summary:
>>
>>First thanks for all the suggestions. Here is the bottom line as I see it:
>>
>>1. All the suggestions based on dd, PartitionImage and PowerQuest's DriveImage
>>suffer from the same problem: Either non existant network support, or
>>(PowerQuest) non intuitive support. Let me be clear: I don't mean "soft" network
>>support (e.g. across TCP/IP). Basically a workshop solution for technicians has
>>to "see" the target drive as being somehow "hooked up" to the server with the
>>drive/partition images.
>>
>
> So a package in the lines of g4u, but with an additional smb/nfs client
> and maybe a nicer interface (e.g: a remote X interface) could have been a
> step in the right direction.
First time I've come across g4u. Gotta see what it does ...
>
> This does not do paritition manipulations yet
>
>
>>2. The basic Ghost VAR package for example, allows me to (legally) have 10
>>technicians doing this simultaneously. So, the practical solution, for better or
>>for worse is the VAR edition of Ghost.
>>
>>3. The Linux angle: AFAIK Ghost works off a Win/DOS based CDROM, since it needs
>>to play with absolute disk sectors. It would be nice to replace the DOS thing
>>with a stripped single user (root) Linux kernel + partition pull utility, for
>>all sorts of reasons apart from the obvious open source issue.
>>
>
> I figure g4u can be ported from NetBSD to linux...
>
> Regards
>
>
Same.
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