On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:50:39PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
Axel Thimm wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:06:39PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
Windows belongs running on virt. In general, for non-Linux OS's, we should also concentrate on virt.
there is still *new* hardware out there not supporting hardware virtualization which Windows seems to require.
Currently I'm looking at a small sized deployment at a school where no system supports hardware virtualization and I assume that most other schools don't either.
Just a data point.
Absolutely, you have to plan for it when you are building out your environment. More so for schools, they are likely to have old, if not ancient, hardware.
Possibly http://clonezilla.org/ ?
I've looked at it, especially the parts that try to restore hostname/sid information. It does look a bit cumbersome to setup and I manage similar things with booting linux off pxe and using ntfsclone.
Is it possible to boot into cobbler/anaconda and skip the package selection part? E.g. only have custom scripts %post applied like ntfsclone from an nfs share?
You might be able to hack this with something like this: %packages --nodocs --nobase
%post ...
Not sure if anaconda will barf but that might do what you want. Can you try it and let us know?