Clonezilla and DRBL

[nigel barker]

Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Krsnendu dasa wrote:
>
>   
>> Has anyone used DRBL on Edubuntu with LTSP?
>>
>> I have to clone a few WinXP machines and thought this would be the easiest
>> way to do it.
>> Are there any tricks to set it up? Is it easy to integrate with LTSP?
>>     
>
> Be very careful!  DRBL will stomp all over your ltsp config.  A colleague
> of mine recently installed DRBL on an LTSP server and seriously regretted
> it.
>
> By all means use DRBL/Clonezilla (although also look at FOG):
>
> 	http://freeghost.no-ip.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
>
> but do it on a non-production machine, not on your LTSP server.
>
> Gavin
>
>
>   
If you have only a few to do, then try the Clonezilla live CD. You don't 
need a server for it.

nigel