to sum up a remote boot environment
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:25 PM,
kitepilot@kitepilot.com
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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 <michael@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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