[Novalug] Fwd: Looking for open source equivalent to Symantec's Ghost Server software

Joseph Brinkley brinkley.joseph@gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 09:47:47 EST 2009


Never used it always wanted to hope it works for ya!

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Joseph Brinkley
<brinkley.joseph@gmail.com>wrote:

> CloneZilla!
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Jay Hart <jhart@kevla.org> wrote:
>
>> Well,
>>
>> I got a project coming up where I need to image two sets of 330PCs using
>> diferent images and I was wondering if there was a way to do it without
>> using
>> Ghost.
>>
>> Several conditions exist:
>>
>> 1. Images are controlled by the Gov't. I didn't make them, don't know how
>> they
>> are made, but I suspect they are created with Ghost.
>>
>> 2. The OS alternative must be able to use a Ghost image
>>
>> 3. I will be imaging (via multicast) 10-15 PCs at a time, so any server SW
>> I
>> use here must be able to handle this type of deployment.
>>
>> 4. Gov't would need to buyoff on my solution (probably not going to
>> happen),
>> but I think I could convince them to look at the SW and make some
>> determination on its use.
>>
>> 5. I plan on using Ghost, just wanted to see if something (free) existed
>> that
>> I could use instead.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Ken Kauffman <kkauffman@headfog.com>
>> > Date: Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 09:23
>> > Subject: Re: [Novalug] Looking for open source equivalent to Symantec's
>> > Ghost Server software
>> > To: Jay Hart <jhart@kevla.org>
>> >
>> >
>> > What functions do you need?
>> >
>> > I use dd, bzip and netcat together to image over the network.
>> >
>> > Ken
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 09:14, Jay Hart <jhart@kevla.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Is there an open source equivalent to Symantec's Ghost Server, and has
>> >> someone
>> >> used it in a secure facility?
>> >>
>> >> TIA,
>> >>
>> >> Jay Hart
>> >>
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