[K12OSN] OT: FOG - Free Computer Cloning Solution
R. Scott Belford
scott at hosef.org
Wed Mar 5 03:29:26 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> Are you using a 'clonezilla-live' boot from CD or do you have a DRBL
> server set up? And has anyone compared DRBL's thicker-client boot to
> k12ltsp in operation? (Drbl is the PXE/etherboot server)
>
Yes. It has been several months, but after a kind of disappointing
migration to something other than the K12ltsp, primarily due to the
flash load, we tested and liked booting a thick client from a DRBL
server. "Tested and liked" is hardly the thorough feedback needed, but
the classroom had been through enough of a change already, so my load
testing was limited.
I use it almost daily to boot to a thick client, after imaging its
drive, and run gparted to resize the partition. It boots fast, is
easily customizable, easily maintainable, easily tweaked, and could be
more to me if I knew more. With the amazing and recently released
clonezilla-live cd getting so much attention, I hope that the DRBL magic
continues.
A *serious* gotcha for me early on was trying to use some Universal Boot
Floppies. That did not work. I had to use a newer etherboot floppy
made from an etherboot image on the DRBL server. This is documented,
but I am generally too smart for documentation until things are broken.
Aloha
--scott
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