[TriLUG] RE:Non-Profit Refurbishing

[Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov]

John,
      I use one of the bootable CD distributions ( Knoppix, featherlinux,
etc.).  I create a "master" machine, run sysprep on it, boot from the boot
cd, use samba to mount a drive from my samba or Windows2000server ,  use
partimage to write a gzip compressed image file across the network, grab
the mbr with dd if=/dev/hda of=/mounted_samba_drive/boot.img bs=512 count=1
.

      To write to the new machine, I boot up with the cd, mount the samba
drive, use partimage to write the "master" image to /dev/hda and write the
master boot record  dd if=/mounted_samba_drive/boot.img of=/dev/hda bs=512
count=1.

      Only problem with partimage is that you cannot shink the partition to
fit to a smaller drive.  You could get around that by shrinking the master
partition before you image it.

Doug

Doug Newcomb
USFWS
Raleigh, NC
919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newcomb at fws.gov
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