>At my school we did this an a couple computers. The admin's used Ghost, >which makes >an image of the complete drive. There's no hope of saving linux the way it >does it. >We lost everything when the end of the term came around, but it was still >exciting to >install Debian via ftp, no disks required. What you could do is get a >separate drive >to stick in one of the machines to use as a backup/mirror that you can get a >fresh >copy of linux from when ever the admin comes around and refreshes your >computer. I'm >sure you could make a DOS boot disk that would automatically run fips, and >another >boot disk that get a new linux image. Anything is possible with Linux! > >Kent West wrote: > >> At 09:20 PM 2/3/1999 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >I'm fighting the system at my community college to get Debian installed on >> >five (of 20) lab computers which are maintained by the school's Info. Tech. >> >group. Windows rules. The lab computers are occasionally wiped clean and a >> >fresh image of NT installed off the LAN. >> > >> >I want to repartition the drives, put Linux in alongside NT, and boot to it >> >(most likely off a boot disk) when teaching a computational chemistry >> >course. >> > >> >Does anyone have experience with a setup similar to this? Am I being naive >> >about doing this? Would there be problems with the disk wipe/image update >> >process? (Disrupting the status-quo is the big issue here.) >> >> It depends on the software used to do the wipe/update. If it just copies >> the files from a network server to a local drive, I don't see a problem. If >> it's copying an image using something like Ghost, you may find that your >> Linux partitions get wiped out. At any rate, I don't think it'll hurt the >> status-quo any to experiment; the worst thing I foresee happening is that >> your Linux setup gets wiped out; the absolute worst thing I can foresee is >> that the one (or 5) machines you experiment on will have to be manually >> reset back to the condition they were in. I'd say, "Go for it." >> >> >Also, is there any issue about the root partition being more than a Gb in on >> >the IDE drive?? (The PC's are IBM-brand 133 or 166 pentiums, "fairly" >> >recent ...). I was thinking about simply chopping off the back end of the >> >current, single partition. (I don't know if NT has a defrag function, >> >though.) >> > >> >Thanks for any help with this. >> > >> >Kenward Vaughan >> >-- >> >----------------------------------------------------------- >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >----------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > >> >-- >> >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >> >/dev/null >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null >
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