[TriLUG] Ghost for Linux?

[Magnus Hedemark]

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On Monday 25 August 2003 11:13 am, Jim Ray wrote:
> agreed.  i have norton enterprise ghost at 5 client sites.  works like a
> charm.  i haven't heard anyone mention a linux-based solution.

It's not imaging, per se, but for Red Hat Linux or Mandrake I'm a big fan of 
Kickstart.  Like I said, it's not strictly imaging but it does an 
installation for each individual system in a reproduceable fashion that is 
perhaps more tolerant of differences in hardware from machine to machine, and 
leaves a system in a more usable state than Ghosting a Windows NT/2000/XP box 
(where you have to enter serial numbers, join the domain, generate a SID etc. 
before you can use the box)

Kickstart does require some more sysadmin smarts than Ghost.  And if you can 
do shell scripting and/or package RPM's yourself, so much the better.

Kickstart takes longer to load a machine, but on the upside it won't cripple 
your network.  Ghost uses multicast and will literally bring your whole LAN 
segment to its knees for the 5-10 minutes that it takes to load a group of 
systems.  Kickstart is unicast and generally will bog down only the kickstart 
server provided the client and server are both on the same switch.
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