Help making a ghost images dual boot windows and edubuntu

[Erik Myrold]

Hello,

I have tried to search the Archives and google but have not found any
specific links or directions.

I am a parent that has obtained 30 workstations from work and am donating
them to my son's school.  I am a Windows Sys Admin with some Linux
experience, not a lot.

If anyone can point me in the direction of some detailed instructions that
would be great!  I just need to get a working prototype CD by today or
tomorrow.

I have experience making a self-restore cd using DOS flopy image pressed to
cd with the image on a single cd, spanned cd or DVD in the windows world and
works fine.  Sounds like I'm going to have issues with the boot loader and
have heard that I might need to use riserfs filesystem, and a few other
things but I am looking for tried and true instructions/steps because I am
running out of time to do a bunch of testing.

First let me describe what I would like to do:

1. My son's school lost their computer lab Aid and have no support for the
lab.  I would like to make a ghost image of a system, so if things get
messed up, a student or faculty member can insert a CD and laydown a
pristine ghost image, followed my a few manual steps to rename the host,
etc...

Phase I:  (down and dirty, not fully automated, students or teachers will
have to perform post ghost manual steps)
1. create a bootable cd that will lay down a dual boot image of windows and
edubuntu with no GRUB issues, default boot into edubuntu.
     - The image needs to support resizing the partitions on the fly;
sometimes I will be ghosting to 40 gig disk and sometimes to 80 gig disks.

Phase II: (fully automated cloning process, either cd-based or PXE boot into
some networking PXE server hosting the iso's)
2. some sort of scripting for post cloning customization for computer name
and connecting to print server, and running the software updater to pull
down all the lastest patches since the cd iso was last made.

Thanks a bunch!

-e

-- 
-Erik Myrold

email: emyrold at gmail.com
cell     415-205-1620
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