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Knoppix saves my company money!
Because of the simplicity of it and the netboot option, we are able to use Knoppix to clone computers without having to purchase a Norton Ghost license for each system. Here is how I use Knoppix on a daily basis.
We have several computers that are configured identically for the product that we sell. So I start one "set" up. One acts as the knoppix boot server and the others net boot off of it. Then I connect a long ethernet cable to a "fresh" set that has not had the OS or our special software loaded yet and net boot them off of the knoppix server.
Then one by one I execute a command like this to clone them.
On the machine I want to copy from:
1. Open 2 root windows
2. start xload on one of them
3. cat /dev/hda | gzip -9 | nc -l -p 5030
On the machine I copy to:
1. nc 192.168.0.1 5030 | gunzip > /dev/hda (192.168.0.1 is the ip of whatever machine I am cloning)
When the xload drops down to zero, then I know it is done. I can typically start about 2 or 3 clients to copy them.
For Windows 9x systems. I do a format c: /s from dos and then untar a tarred backup that I made using knoppix.
Since Knoppix auto configures the hardware, I don't have to mess with making boot floppies or keeping track of them.
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