Cloning/Imaging

[Theo Schmidt]

Ryan Kelley wrote:
>
> Would like to talk to someone that has mass deployed Edubuntu on Acer 
> Netbooks in a K-12 school district.  We are running into many problems 
> using FOG.  Our main issue is after the image is clone all we see on 
> the screen is a blinking cursor.  It appears that FOG and Ghost do not 
> work well with Edubuntu.  Can you please tell me what others are using?
>
I usually use dd, but it is easy to make mistakes. I have also used this 
method with complete success:
http://www.greenfly.org/tips/filesystem_migration.html

However, these were for single copies. A friend of mine devised a method 
using scripts and rsync to clone drives in a geometric progression, i.e. 
first one drive to two, then two to four, and so on. Her used this to 
update his school computers.

Cheers, Theo Schmidt