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 wrote: > to sum up a remote boot environment > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:25 PM, kitepilot@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 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 >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > --------------------------------------------------- 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