Help making a ghost images dual boot windows and edubuntu

[francois Barillon]

Le vendredi 26 octobre 2007 à 11:04 -0700, Erik Myrold a écrit :
> 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.

If the school can afford the cost of only one recent computer, you can
install an Edubuntu server on it so there will be no system to install
on any other old computer. You can either prepare a rom-o-matic floppy
for each client or you can buy a pxe booting network card.

To rewrite an clean windows system on an old computer, you can install
partimage daemon on Edubuntu server, partimage client on
the /opt/ltsp/i386/ opt-root of the same Edubuntu server.
 Then "sudo ltsp-update-image" if you are on Gusty.

This system can get you to copy a clean installation on one computer and
paste it on same types computers.

There is a link here (in french, I'm sorry) that could help :
http://assistance.scola.ac-paris.fr/doc/sambaparis/sbp3/index.php?lien=cre_partimaged.htm

Hope this could help...

François