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<p>Hi , </p><p>I've used UDPCast with a Sysprep'd image etc but I'm going to use FOG</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/">sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/</a></p><p>It combines all the goodness of G4l, udpcast auto setup configuration, and much more for long term management of apps and images!.</p><p> </p><p>However.. most important is to spend as much time as possible sorting out the base image for all uses,</p><p>ie after its on the Domain, offline files, wireless ,dialup, proxy,printing,firewall, virus/malware protection AT and AWAY from school, full install of standard apps, .net,java,sql and other librarys, and then test and test, test the abilty to re-image, maybe partition the hard drive so that user data is separate as mush as windows will allow etc.........give it to others to break.. fix it. and then image it once.. </p><p> </p><p>cheers</p><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(50, 95, 186); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">-----Original message-----<br /><strong>From:</strong> Barry R Cisna <brcisna@eazylivin.net><br /><strong>Sent:</strong> Sat 29-11-2008 06:14<br /><strong>To:</strong> K12LTSP <k12osn@redhat.com>; <br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [K12OSN] Cloning Acer Aspire One<br /><br />Hi Brian,<br /><br />Use G4L. Download the latest ISO and burn a few copies to CD. It is<br />about 80mb's. If you are setting these Acer's up with Windows, use the<br />sysprep tool that is on any Xp cd(under the Tools folder) for this. Put<br />all the applications,printers you think you *might* use on your<br />'master'. Then after this copy the -blank6-(two files from the g4l CD)<br />onto the master HD, -run blank6-. It will take about 20 mins on an 80gig<br />HD. This writes nulls to each empty sector of your cloning HD. This will<br />reduce your saved master .img to about 3gig!. After doing the blank6 run<br />sysprep on the master HD. This will in essence ,once cloned to the<br />second,, third pc,,lets you run a mini-setup program,to pick out<br />name,join domain etc after you have cloned to one of the laptops.Now,<br />pop in the g4l cd into your master laptop,and have a directory already<br />setup to save your master.img on a server at your building then go<br />through the steps,to 'backup' the master. This will be saved in lzop<br />compression by default. It will take about 2 hours to save the<br />initial .img to your server. The upside,once you start cloning the<br />master.img to the rest of your laptops,it will take about 25 mins( for<br />one at a time). there is even a multicast option on g4l,but i always<br />just start each cloner one at a time myself. This will work fine for<br />linux,winders,mac partitions.<br />Hope this helps getting you started.<br />Sidenote: G4l runs 'outside' of the OS, This is what gets most people in<br />trouble using Norton Ghost,,:-)<br /><br />Take Care,<br />Barry Cisna<br />WestCentral School #235<br /><br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />K12OSN mailing list<br />K12OSN@redhat.com<br />https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn<br />For more info see <http://www.k12os.org><br /></blockquote>
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