From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 11 17:25:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from filer4.isc.rit.edu (filer4.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4850814A2C for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:25:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcptch@osfmail.isc.rit.edu) Received: from grace.isc.rit.edu ("port 3806"@[129.21.3.102]) by osfmail.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #34621) with ESMTP id <0FJG005DZQID4F@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:56:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by grace.isc.rit.edu (8.8.8/1.1.19.2/21Sep98-0910AM) id TAA0000025395; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:56:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:56:35 -0400 From: Jon Parise Subject: Re: Mirroring In-reply-to: ; from zoonie@zilch.org on Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 07:52:08PM -0400 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-followup-to: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <19991011195635.D22436@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i X-Operating-System: OSF1 V4.0 (alpha) References: Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 04:38:52PM -0700, Deepwell Internet wrote: > Correct me if I am wrong, but I think he is not talking about > mirroring at all (file or disk) but replication. He mentioned > ghost which is a program written to replicate hard drive > partitions. Usually it's used to make a cookie cutter computer. > For example, you have 150 cubicles each with the same model Dell > desktop PC and you want to install Windows 98, MS Word, etc onto > all of them. > > I know ImageCast for NT allows you to "cast" an image that is not > VFAT or NTFS so you could probably do it with that program, but > you'd be best off to do it with dd. I've heard good things about Drive Image (from the makers of Partition Magic). I haven't used it personally, but they use it in the labs here to maintain the Linux and NT installations. It can restore drive images over the network, apparently. -- Jon Parise (parise@pobox.com) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.pobox.com/~parise/ : Computer Science House Member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message