Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f9HEW4Y32542 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:32:04 -0700 Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9HEVvD32516 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:31:57 -0700 Received: from walt400.localhost (user-uini60r.dsl.mindspring.com [165.121.24.27]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAB23525 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:31:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mindspring.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by walt400.localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id E48628108A8; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:30:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BCD9600.3040303@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:30:24 -0700 From: Walt H User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Seth Mos Cc: Thomas Duffy , XFS Mailing List Subject: Re: [slightly OT] replicated installs of XFS References: <1003278511.24746.37.camel@tduffy-lnx.afara.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20011017072557.02bcbbd8@pop.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk If it does a decent enough job of making (basic) images, it should work on disk replication for workstation installs no? I'm thinking of using it to setup a workstation as we would completely for a desktop and then image it off for dupes to additional stations. These will be fairly basic setups so I'm hoping it can do the job for me. One plus, is where I work, we use a mix of Macs, Windows 2000 and some Linux boxes (thanks to yours truly) for some server tasks. Again, haven't tried it, but from the web page it sounds like it's just what I need. -Walt Seth Mos wrote: > At 17:40 16-10-2001 -0700, Walt H wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I haven't tried it personally, though will soon enough, but you might >> want to check out Partition Image for linux - http://www.partimage.org >> >> Seems to be like a Norton Ghost type program for linux that supports >> many filesystems including XFS. Sounds pretty neat. > > > It works OK but it lacks drivers like raid and some scsi controllers. > > >> -Walt >> >> >> Thomas Duffy wrote: >> >>> I was wondering if anybody had any luck with tools to do automated >>> custom installs of systems with XFS filesystems. The choices I have >>> seen all don't meet all of our needs... >>> 1) Norton Ghost - does not support XFS >>> 2) Systemimager - does not support XFS out of box. apparently Austin >>> Gonyou has got it to work >>> (http://systemimager.org/pub/unofficial/XFS-Support_by_Austin_Gonyou/), >>> so I might be able to replicate this... >>> 3) RedHat kickstart - does not allow customization of installed disk >>> (ie, Ximian, extra software, config files). >>> 4) some hack with tftpboot, nfsroot, xfsdump/restore - ugly and hard to >>> automate >>> any others? any successes? >>> thanks! >>> -tduffy >>> >>> >> > > -- > Seth > Every program has two purposes one for which > it was written and another for which it wasn't > I use the last kind. >