On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:56:51PM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > I've used the Ghost with Norton 2003, to do disk copies of > computers that are setup with Win98/Fedora in dual boot mode, and > it seems to work fine. With Red Hat 9, it would do the copy, but I > would have to boot from the rescue disk, and login as root, and > change to the grub directory, and run the grub command to reset the > root partition. This can be found at the symantec site, but I don't > have it handly. I have 20 machines in the lab, and setup one > machine, did all updates, and then used a cross-over cable to > connect it to another machine. Then I did multiple copies from those > two to the others, eventually ended have 8 machines ghosting to 8 > other machines all with cross over cables, made it a very fast > process. I gather the machines in your lab are not normally networked. How about using a USB 2.0 drive? You may find my "Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO" useful for this as well. http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html Inter alia, my scripts will run grub for you. You can add a call to ifconfig to the build scripts. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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