first Time DRBL

[Matthew A Coulliette]

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.
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> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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...
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>> 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
>>
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>> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 10:12 -0700, Stephen wrote:
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>>> 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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