Linux box with Ghost images?

kclark · 02-14-2007, 02:47 PM

Hey guys this is my first post on here and my first ever major linux project. I have PClinuxOS installed at home and wanna bring some linux into my work. I am a PC tech for a company with over 400 employee's all running Dells... needless to say I'm very busy. I recently have been imaging the machines (using a dos boot disk with set up with ghost to connect via tcp), but I want to have a linux "server" on the network at all times ready to push down the ghost images to the (client) machines at my demand. Any advice would be helpful as I want to get started on this as soon as i can figure everything out.

MS3FGX · 02-14-2007, 03:48 PM

I am not too sure how the server side software works for Ghost.

The easiest thing would be to just take Ghost out of the equation entirely, and use something with more flexibility in terms of the server.

There is G4U (Ghost for Unix) and G4L (Ghost for Linux) which both use FTP on the server side. These are used for imaging the entire drive.

If you want to just image single partitions (which is usually enough for Windows machines), then you could try PartImage, which has it's own server side to push out the images (in addition to being able to just load them over NFS or something).

Of course, if you are committed to sticking with Ghost, those might not be viable options.

kclark · 02-14-2007, 03:53 PM

Thanks for the quick reply... i want a sever that can house all my drivers too, would any of those two that you mentioned work for that too?

MS3FGX · 02-14-2007, 03:56 PM

What do you mean exactly by that?

If you are looking for something like a file server that can hold the drivers and would be accessible from Windows clients, then you could easily do that with Samba.

msetzerii · 03-23-2007, 01:21 AM

Both G4L and G4U will work with an ftp server to store multiple images.
G4L has a front end option that can make it easy to have a menu to select which
images to install, and can assist in creation of the images by feeding in the current date as part of the image names. I have a Fedora 3 server that has two 250GB drives in it, and the one drive is dedicated to storing images of various systems. Also, have another machine that has another 250GB to keep backup copies of the images.
Check out the info on the sourceforge or freshmeat sites.