first Time DRBL

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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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