first Time DRBL

[AZ Rune]

Hi Stephen,

I actually had a network of Dell Optiplex machines running DRBL from
Clonezilla in 7.10 Ubuntu and Kubuntu.

let me know what I can help with.

Brian

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> to sum up a remote boot environment
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:25 PM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com
> <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>> http://drbl.sourceforge.net/
>> :)
>>
>>
>> Matthew A Coulliette writes:
>>
>>> What is DRBL? - MatthewMPP
>>>
>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>> interesting. I have gotten the clonezilla livecd working. so was
>>>> looking forward to having the ability to have a server repository for
>>>> this and not needing anything cept a network boot.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'd installed DRBL on my laptop's vm a while back as a cloning tool
>>>>> (clonezilla, uses DRBL), which I found basically never worked in many
>>>>> attempts to clone windows or linux.  Wouldn't surprise me if it was my
>>>>> fault, but I could never find the secret sauce to get it properly
>>>>> functional.  It always seemed to hang reading a disk somewhere in the
>>>>> middle, after hours of trying, leaving anything unusable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just getting it working was a bit of a chore, as their setup scripts
>>>>> assume certain stupid things like the server would multihome between a
>>>>> private and a public (non-RFC1918, outside a firewall, ick) ip space, so
>>>>> I had to modify some of the regexp's in the setup script to get it
>>>>> working between 2 privately routable subnets.  I ran off of the
>>>>> directions mostly on their site to get things going short of that quirk.
>>>>> Caveat Emptor...
>>>>>
>>>>> Aside from that, it did work pretty well for diskless booting machines
>>>>> into various linux os's to install themselves.  I pxe booted a box and
>>>>> installed ubuntu from it just fine.  I wanted to play more with the
>>>>> thin-client functionality, but somewhat lost interest/purpose.  It took
>>>>> a lot of guesswork out of setting up dhcpd, tftp, etc for remote booting
>>>>> which was nice.
>>>>>
>>>>> YMMV...
>>>>>
>>>>> -mb
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 10:12 -0700, Stephen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone here have any advice on setting up a DRBL server?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have the obvious Walk through (http://drbl.sourceforge.net/one4all/)
>>>>>> but any real world suggestions would be appreciated before i get
>>>>>> going.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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