Hi there,

	Why not Hubert Feyrer's "ghost for unix" (g4u)? I've been using it
for a while and it's really great.

	http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/

	[]'s
	Ricardo.

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Daniel Carosone wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:59:27 +1000
> From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
> To: Graham M Greenfield <grahagre@ocusd.net>
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: disk cloning, imaging
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:57:16PM -0500, Graham M Greenfield wrote:
> > However, I was wondering the best way to go about cloning harddisks for
> > the clients that would be used. Perhaps someone knows of a program that
> > makes cloning easy and quick so that I wouldn't have to keep opening up
> > cases?
>
> Boot of an install/rescue floppy, cd, or network.
>
> Stick the image to be cloned up on the network, somewhere accessible
> by nfs or ftp.
>
> Use the install image to dd that onto the hard disks over the network.
>
> If your workstations are PXE or otherwise netboot-capable, it's
> even easier to reuse this mechanism automatically each time you update
> the image as well.
>
> If the disks aren't all the same size, you'll either need to make
> the image the size of the smallest disk, or script a little "newfs,
> restore, installboot" routine.
>
> --
> Dan.
>