first Time DRBL

[Stephen]

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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