01-04-2007
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Originally Posted by frankkahle
We have a whole bunch of both redhat enterprise and solaris 5.7,8,9 systems and we would like to make images of the drives. Does anyone have recommendations on how to best image these systems?
Try kickstart for Linux
and jumpstart with Flash image of the whole system (check /usr/sbin/flarcreate) for Solaris
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nbdrootd
nbdrootd() nbdrootd()
NAME
nbdrootd -- Serve out LTSP images created with ltsp-update-image(8)
SYNOPSIS
nbdrootd
DESCRIPTION
nbdrootd will serve out LTSP images created with ltsp-update-image(8) which are filesystem images, and compressed with mksquashfs(8). The
nbdrootd(8) program is a simple shell script wrapper for nbd-server(1) program, and it is usually run from an inetd(8) instance.
EXAMPLE
Add the following line to /etc/inetd.conf(5):
2000 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nbdrootd /opt/ltsp/images/i386.img
Note that the ltsp-update-image(8) program will do this for you automatically.
SEE ALSO
ltsp-update-image(1), nbd-server(1), inetd(8), inetd.conf(5), nbd-client(8).
AVAILABILITY
nbdrootd is part of ltsp package and the latest versions are available in source form from https://launchpad.net/products/ltsp (link to URL
https://launchpad.net/products/ltsp) .
AUTHOR
copyright 2007 Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any
later version.
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