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From: "Giles Nunn"
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 15:18 +0000, Paul Graydon wrote:
On 16 Nov 2004 at 12:02, adrian.wells wrote:
How do you implement remote w/s builds across the network? I'd considered a duel partition and 'ghosting' across but most of these w/s only have 4GB HDDs. We try not to have CD-ROMs on any PC's as it's just another item to replace every term!
I can't help with many of your questions, but I might be able to make a suggestion here.. g4u http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ that's a nice boot floppy that'll allow you to image to / from an FTP server, which you could set up on your Debian box. I do this with my test-bed box at home, uploading to an FTP server running on my WinXP box. The FTP server is set for anonymous to point at a specific image directory, though I guess in a live environment I'd set that up so anonymous had read-only to the directory, and have a separate secure account setup for uploading. This way you can boot the end w/s from a floppy disk and then back up / restore whenever you have the need. ----- Paul Graydon Network Technician Haywards Heath College http://www.hhc.ac.uk (01444) 456281 "Joy is not in things; it is in us." Richard Wagner
There is also systemimager (http://www.systemimager.org/) which I use here to recreate a system. It can do a lot more but will work well as a rebuild mechanism. It uses an rsync server to hold the master data and will work with network boot - I use it that way to automate the install of servers which have no removable disks. Thanks, I'll take a look at this too.
I suppose that if the update software were kept on a tiny partition on the HDD then users could request their own station rebuild if the box became unstable by having grub/lilo provide access to the required partition, that's assuming that the system runs in ram I imagine. Just a thought - off to read :-)
HTH
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