Part XIII.  (Mass) Installations, also dual-boot

Table of Contents

Demo: Remote-unattended-install from USB-stick-started network
Cloning Ubuntu
Principle and issues
PAM configuration with Augeas
Expect VMWare Player Installs Automation
Creating XP/Karmic dual-boot images
Booting Straigth from the Mirror
Reinstalling Dual-boot Ubuntu/Windows
gPXE Booting
Server SIde Scripting with gPXE
Unattended daul-boot Linux/Windows
tar over SSH
D-I partition labeling
Introduction
Debian/Ubuntu
Preseeding Ubuntu Hardy
Zenworks Imaging
Can ZENworks imaging be used to clone a Linux machine (and if so, how)?
What are the restrictions ZENworks imaging puts on the way a machine is partitioned?
What limitations does ZENworks imaging impose on the filesystems used?
Can we use ZENworks imaging to put Linux in a designated space on a harddisk without damaging any other OSes or data already present on the disk?
Does ZENworks imaging support RAID? LVM?
Can we safely use ZENworks imaging on machines with multiple disks?
CfEngine configuration
The server part
The client part
Bootleg imaging
PXE boot
The bootleg boot script
Drawing a bundle
How to determine what a host boots
Partitioning in Imaging software
NTFS cloning under Linux
Introduction
Expectations
The experiment
Conclusion
Post-Clone script for Windows XP in U/SWP
No-BIOS-access Linux install
SystemImager initrd
SystemImager