Re: [seul-edu] wine testing efforts (Ghost Thread)

[Cameron Miller <cdmiller@adams.edu>]

Harry McGregor wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, James Oden wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>I was not saying it wasn't a good tool (its a very nice tool), but its
>>not free and when I was using it you had to license it for every machine
>>that you cloned (most people to do not stick to the license so strictly,
>>but that is how it was worded, and may still be today).
>>
> 
> As much as I love Open Source, and Free Software, dealing with Windows
> NT/2K SIDs, on an NTFS file system, is not something I would like to
> mangle with.
> 
> Educational Licesning of ghost is about $15/seat (full), or about $8/seat
> upgrade.  Compaired to the man hours saved, it is well worth it, and
> actualy quite cheap compaired to things like Novell ZENWorks.
> 
> 
>>So its not a
>>cheap solution.  I guess all I was really suggesting is that there are
>>Open Source tools for replicating linux systems, and it would be very
>>worth while to concentrate on building something like Ghost under linux
>>that supports dual boot systems and such.  But again, Ghost works _real_
>>well, and the multicast feature is awsome...james
>>
> 
> If Partimage ever gets the ability to deal with NTFS well (resizeing and
> all), and the multicast, it will be an option for Win2K/NT/XP systems (and
> dual boots), until then, coming up with a multicast rsync would be really
> useful.
> 
> 		Harry

Well,

What I have used successfully in the past was a combo of sfdisk, dd, 
gzip, and udpcast...
Some type of multicast or broadcast rsync or rdist would be quite nice.

- cameron

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- cameron miller
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