On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)atrpms.net> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:50:39PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:06:39PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> >
> >> Windows belongs running on virt. In general, for non-Linux OS's, we
> >> should also concentrate on virt.
> >>
> >
> > there is still *new* hardware out there not supporting hardware
> > virtualization which Windows seems to require.
> >
> > Currently I'm looking at a small sized deployment at a school where no
> > system supports hardware virtualization and I assume that most other
> > schools don't either.
> >
> > Just a data point.
> >
>
> Absolutely, you have to plan for it when you are building out your
> environment. More so for schools, they are likely to have old, if not
> ancient, hardware.
>
> Possibly
http://clonezilla.org/ ?
I've looked at it, especially the parts that try to restore
hostname/sid information. It does look a bit cumbersome to setup and I
manage similar things with booting linux off pxe and using ntfsclone.
Is it possible to boot into cobbler/anaconda and skip the package
selection part? E.g. only have custom scripts %post applied like
ntfsclone from an nfs share?
You might be able to hack this with something like this:
%packages --nodocs --nobase
%post
...
Not sure if anaconda will barf but that might do what you want. Can
you try it and let us know?
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Jeff Schroeder
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