first Time DRBL

[Stephen]

mostly i was getting ready to set up a few things primarily id like to
have clonezilla ready with its related images fro deployment, and if
possible a pair of diagnostic boot images

but initially im just looking for some of those practical docs say
this, this is how it played out tidbits if they exist... the walk
through wants it to be a sort of bridge between the machines and
outside world which i find weird and not useful.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:25 PM, AZ Rune <arizona.rune at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen