Making disc images

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 23 17:47:41 UTC 2010


On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:09:30PM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I have to set up ten Acer netbooks, with Windows XP (sorry) and software 
> and correct configuration, and I hoped that rather than setting up each
> machine manually I could configure one the way I like it and then clone
> the disk on the other machines.
> 
> Has anyone got a tutorial and a set of software that they would
> recommend for this purpose?  Thanks.

I haven't done it, but maybe partimage would do it well.

Package: partimage
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 964
Maintainer: Michael Biebl <biebl-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org>
Architecture: powerpc
Version: 0.6.8-1
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1), libnewt0.52, libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libslang2 (>= 2.0.7-1), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-5), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg)
Conflicts: partimage-doc (<= 20020126-6), partimage-server (<< 0.6.0)
Filename: pool/main/p/partimage/partimage_0.6.8-1_powerpc.deb
Size: 298160
MD5sum: 809f02bd75afd10c70c6ea199bbeb0f9
SHA1: 208e9ac2da5c75487f8544121f4909ecc69933c7
SHA256: 71abccf42fd4493f68510b7dd5c715c1842ae89f5de538dbf31a55679bf10b99
Description: backup partitions into a compressed image file
 Partition Image is a partition imaging utility. It has support for the
 following file systems:
  * Ext2/3, the Linux standard
  * ReiserFS, a journalised and powerful file system
  * FAT16/32, DOS and Windows file systems
  * HPFS, IBM OS/2 file system
  * JFS, journalised file system, from IBM, used on AIX
  * XFS, another journalised and efficient file system, from SGI, used on Irix
  * UFS (beta), Unix file system
  * HFS (beta), MacOS File system
  * NTFS (experimental), Windows NT, 2000 and XP
 Only used blocks are copied and stored into an image file.
 The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space,
 and split into multiple files to be copied onto removable media (ZIP for
 example), burned on a CD-R, etc.
 .
 This makes it possible to save a full Linux/Windows system with a single
 operation. In case of a problem (virus, crash, error, etc.), you just have
 to restore, and after several minutes, your entire system is restored
 (boot, files, etc.), and fully working.
 .
 This is very useful when installing the same software on many machines: just
 install one of them, create an image, and restore the image on all other
 machines.
Homepage: http://www.partimage.org

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