Re: PXE linux server for Disk Imaging software


Lasse Jensen wrote:
maxchock@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Don't you have problems with "users" stealing the drives?

no, the harddisk is well lock inside the cpu casing..

It should be trivial. First you have to create harddrive images for each
machine on your fileserver. The ghost images does not work with the
standard Unix tools. Boot a kernel over PXE, mount a small root partition
either in RAM using TFTP or over NFS. Mount the folder with the images and
use dd or whatever your flavour is to rewrite the harddrive.

If you are really smart, use WOL to boot the machines remotely one at a
time, rewrite the drive, shutdown and continue with the next one. For extra
credit, use SMNP to report any problems back to the server.

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Lasse Jensen [fafler at g mail dot com]
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