Hello,
I just found a link to this wonderful looking package last night when reading a old thread on slashdot about "Ghost 4 Unix".
First of all, a big thanks for this effort. The world needs this solution in open source form, and you've done it!
Up to now, I've been using something like g4u, except based on KNOPPIX, to do the imaging over dd, ftp, wget, and gzip. It works well for small numbers of machines, but I'd like the solve the problem for imaging perhaps 30 to 40 at once.
I'm just at the initial stage of investigating udpcast, and reading over the web site for any instructions I may have missed...
So far I have these initial questions.
1. Is there a howto for disk cloning written already?
2. I don't see any reference to the steps required for creating the disk image file of the template machine, or is this not how it is done? That is, I have a template machine ready to clone, what are the steps to make an image file of the hard disk, that upd-sender can use? Should I continue to use my equivalent to g4u to upload a gzipped disk dump (dd) file by FTP?
3. Will the linux kernel enable DMA on the hard drive? I found DMA (via hdparm) made a big performance difference in my KNOPPIX based solution, but then some kernels seem to automatically enable DMA anyway.
Regards,
--Donald Teed