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 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 >> >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------- 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