In this situation I have about 10 machines that are getting cloned from one master, with DD taking about an hour to do each machine. The machines are all spare, so it's not a matter of tying up a workstation, but getting things done quickly. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:47:10AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > I'm still a fan of dd for such tasks. > > You mention speed, but I wonder why that should be an issue. Even if dd > is slow, are you actually doing so many disks over so many days, weeks, > and months that it really matters? Or, maybe you're worried about tyeing > up your only workstation? In wich case I'd just do it overnight. > > Janina > > Alex Snow writes: > > Hi, > > Was just given the task of cloning several machines from a master that I > > installed. THe master has both Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04 installed. > > What's the best way to make an image of this drive so it can be copied > > to several other drives? I was thinking of just using DD, but is there > > any faster way? partimage looked interesting, but it looked like a pain > > to clone an entire disk (doing it one partition at a time, then losing > > the MBR from the original drive). > > Also looked at clonezilla which looked somewhat promising (it uses a > > console interface so could have speakup integrated into it), but I was > > unable to find any source (or even a copy of the kernel config so I > > could recompile) > > Any advice would be greatly apreciated. > > > > -- > > lp1 on fire > > -- One of the more obfuscated kernel messages > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at a11y.org > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com > > Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada > Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com > > Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org > Linux Foundation http://a11y.org > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Now, it we had this sort of thing: yield -a for yield to all traffic yield -t for yield to trucks yield -f for yield to people walking (yield foot) yield -d t* for yield on days starting with t ...you'd have a lot of dead people at intersections, and traffic jams you wouldn't believe... -- Discussion on the intuitiveness of commands
