Re: [SIGUnix]g4u

[Anthony Philipp <philipp1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 08:15:17PM -0600, Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
> Anthony Philipp wrote:
> >i realize i didn't send it to sigunix. so here goes
> >
> >http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
> >this is a harddisk image cloner, which could be used for that
> >clustering project, if they have one machine installed, the rest
> >could be installed very quickly, also i sent this to lug, because
> >maybe some of you guys would be intrested in it. anthony
> 
> Since I do not see different architecture versions, I going to assume 
> that this is just for x86.  This will not help SIGUnix on the SPARC 

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#oss
works on non-pc systems as well, 

> machines for the cluster.  Of course, maybe there is some other cluster 
> that I don't know about.
> 
> Besides, its not hard to netboot a small linux kernel and ramdisk to run 
> a few commands to dd | nc and then nc | dd on the otherside. 
> Alternately, since the Sun HDDs are 80-SCA, it might be quicker to 
> manally transfer HDDs and then clone using dd locally, as some of the 
> machines have only 10 BASE network.

this may very well be the case, but they seemed to want to do it on the network, and this was a response to jumpstart which may be more difficult to set up. I believe you yourself were suggesting using disck clonging over jumpstart.

>
> I'll note that cloning using this methid can lead to various problems, 
> including all machines having the same hostname and its really annoying 
> to track down and solve these problems, especially when you "email from 
> root" for 40 machines and the emails all look indentical.  I'll also 

how does jumpstart bypass this? during the jumpstart install don't you still have to change this manually. well using g4u you have to do it manually after the install. not perfect, but it still seems a little easier to set up that jumpstart.

> note that Ghost is far superior than this for multiple reasons, assuming 
> you are using ext2/3 on x86.  I'm not really a fan of uploading to an 

i don't see how this makes a difference, since they aren't using x86...

> ftp server myself and ghost automatically splits files and can compress 
> them on the fly.
>

does ghost support solaris on spac? just wondering.
 
> <<CDC 

Anthony