OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

[Stephen]

It occurs to me, the clonezilla "alternate" cd is built from ubuntu,
and works just fine on raid controllers, but the ones I interacted
with were recognized by the kernel and did not require additional
drivers.

You may want to check and see if the alternate will see your hardware.

And im fairly certain if you compiled drivers and manually loaded them
it would work, even go so far as to add them to the build so it would
then suit your needs.
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