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 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 >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss