Folks, We have need of installing a disk image via a network. Currently, they are using a CD and Ghost to install this (because the guys doing it are DOS/Win people, and the end system is WinNT), but are having troubles because it doesn't always clean up the FAT and can get mixed up (about one-in-ten fails to boot when they are done). I have this thought in my mind that if I had the NTFS filesystem image on a Linux machine (either via CD or on a hard drive) that was networked, once I have a rudimentary Linux system (booted from floppy) running on the target system to share the drive partitions I could copy the NTFS system to the drive partitions I wanted via the cpio command: find . -print -depth -mount | cpio ... [I have the exact arguments at home, not here, but I've used it to copy a complete bootable filesystem from one drive to another.] Does anyone out there see a problem with this process? Anyone have any recommendations for a simple boot distro that will recognize a SCSI Raid system? In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Thomas A. Condon email: tcondon@kpt.nuwc.navy.mil | | Computer Engineer phone: (360) 315-7609 | | Barbershop Bass Singer Sailor and Singer of Chanties | | Left Handed and In My Right Mind | +----------------------------------------------------------+ /"\ \ / X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
