Re: Does Symantec Ghost 7.5 work with BSD?

["Christian J Hedemark" <chris@yonderway.com>]

Henning Brauer said:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:51:11AM -0500, Steve Brown wrote:
> > OBSD includes something that can clone a disk? Please tell me more! :-)
>
> man dd

There's more to it than that.  With ghost you end up with a spiffy boot
diskette, go around and boot all of your hosts off of the diskette, and the
machines sit and wait until you mash a key on the server.  When you give the
word, the ghost server broadcasts the image to all of the hosts at once.
That's one way to do it anyway.

Still, the automated boot diskette is what most people are looking for I
believe when they are looking at ghost.  Put an image on a server somewhere,
and boot off the floppy to pick it up, fdisk the local hard drive, and dd
the image onto the correct partition.  The boot disk should prompt for
hostname and tcp/ip configuration, or pull everything from dhcp (assuming
you have already reserved hostname & mac address in named & dhcpd
respectively).  The Windows approach is usually something third party like
Ghost.  The Red Hat Linux approach is Kickstart, which is probably a lot
more work than Ghost for a different result than what Ghost will give you.
dd is probably closer to one large part of ghost, but there is still a lot
missing.