Thank you very much. I have been noticing the "man xxx" statements in a lot of messages and last night I put it on my "try this" list (which must be 100 items strong right now). As for the MondoRescue and sysrepped windows, I had such poor luck trying to image a sysrepped windows that I started imaging the finished install, then after it is installed, I run sysrep before installing on the network. It might take a minute longer per computer, but it keeps my blood pressure down. Besides that, I only work with small networks... The point of diminishing return on the time I spend getting the base image correct vs. imaging disk to disk and running sysrep on each system is too close to spend a lot of time getting everything perfect. LOL BTW, will a kickstart disk setup for RHL 8.0 work with RHL 9? I realize it may not be perfect, but I am sure most of the settings and selections would be valid. Lets face it, I don't change time zones or languages that often and a file server uses basically the same settings regardless of the version. Kickstart has been on my "Learn This" list for a while now and is fast approaching the top. Your help is much appreciated. Thank you again. Buck Buck wrote: > I have been toying around with Kickstart. I will do more serious > experimenting with it when I learn how to set the file server up > properly. What I have seen does help. I hope that when I create one > it will at least mostly work for newer releases as well. That will > make it most valuable. Kickstart works with the CDs as well. Just keep floppies with your kickstart file at hand. > I use Ghost on my Windows systems but I have Drive Image 4.0 as well. > It might pick up the Linux partitions if Ghost doesn't. Whether or > not Ghost and Drive Image work, I plan to learn how to use the backup > utility to assist in quick setups and to protect systems. There is > nothing more embarrassing than telling the boss his backup failed. I must admit that I'm really old-fashioned with backups (I'm with Unix for nearly 20 years I think), I just use tar. > What is DD? dd does raw disk writes/reads. You can use it for filesystem images like writing boot floppies. On a Unix or Linux system, type man dd and learn. ;-)) `man commandname` will give you the man page for that command, and `man -k keyword` helps you find the command which does what you need. > You said no trouble with the SID. I know SID is in Windows, are you > saying it isn't in Linux or that the config corrects it. There is no SID or similar stuff in Unix. The machine is identified by hostname and IP-address, nothing else. Best regards, Martin Stricker -- Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ Red Hat Linux 8.0 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/ -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
