Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:56:35 -0400 From: Jon Parise <jcptch@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mirroring Message-ID: <19991011195635.D22436@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910111949270.16625-100000@localhost>; from zoonie@zilch.org on Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 07:52:08PM -0400 References: <v0420550bb428244011ca@[1.1.1.3]> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910111949270.16625-100000@localhost>
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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
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