Cloning/Imaging

[Peter k]

Theo's filesystem_migration page triggered a memory. A couple years ago I
also tried to use Norton Ghost to clone and had blinking cursor issues. The
problem was ghost didn't support cloning grub which I was using for my
double-boot system. In fact, I'm under the impression that ghost may not
work with linux at all. To fix it I booted each computer with knoppix and
reinstalled grub (as in Theo's webpage).
Now I use clonezilla for one-off jobs and the drbl live cd for entire labs.
http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-SE.php
-peter

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Theo Schmidt <theo.schmidt at wilhelmtux.ch>wrote:

> Ryan Kelley wrote:
>
>>
>> Would like to talk to someone that has mass deployed Edubuntu on Acer
>> Netbooks in a K-12 school district.  We are running into many problems using
>> FOG.  Our main issue is after the image is clone all we see on the screen is
>> a blinking cursor.  It appears that FOG and Ghost do not work well with
>> Edubuntu.  Can you please tell me what others are using?
>>
>>  I usually use dd, but it is easy to make mistakes. I have also used this
> method with complete success:
> http://www.greenfly.org/tips/**filesystem_migration.html<http://www.greenfly.org/tips/filesystem_migration.html>
>
> However, these were for single copies. A friend of mine devised a method
> using scripts and rsync to clone drives in a geometric progression, i.e.
> first one drive to two, then two to four, and so on. Her used this to update
> his school computers.
>
> Cheers, Theo Schmidt
>
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