[GTALUG] simple straightforward tool for mainaining small networked of imaged linux boxes

[Giles Orr]

I haven't used it, but I'm told it's good and it's meant to address
exactly the problem you've explained:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/  (Ghost for Linux)

That said, using PXE booting may be a better solution.

On 7 October 2014 13:18, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 07:01:42AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
>> Lennart, can you explain that process in more detail?  I mean, what tool
>> would one PXE boot from?
>>
>> Walter, that is helpful but still sounds pretty time-consuming -- I would
>> like to find a way to have an unattended re-imaging that can run
>> more-or-less simultaneously on all the machines.
>
> If the BIOS has an option for network boot, then you could enable that.
> Then the server would have to have 'pxe' (pxe boot daemon) running to
> send the boot files to the client when it powers on.  This would then
> provide the boot menu and such for the client, which could normally be
> to load the kernel and ramdisk from the local disk, or to network boot
> a kernel and ramdisk that reflash the local disk, perhaps using partimage
> to transfer the image from the server to the client.
>
> You might even set up wake on lan if supported so you could remotely
> turn the machines on when you want them to do the reimaging of the disk.
> In fact a lot of machines can have a different boot order for normal
> boot versus wake on lan boot making some parts even simpler.
>
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