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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:14:53 -0500
From: "Austad, Jay" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
To: "'tclug-list at mn-linux.org'" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Subject: [TCLUG] Ghetto Ghost

So, since I don't have a copy of ghost, and I don't think ghost works
with
Linux anyway, I used a couple of commands which did the same thing.

I need to clone one of my machines to about 10 other ones.  And
because of the level of customization, it would take forever to do by
hand.  So,
I downloaded Tom's root boot floppy from http://www.toms.net.  The
machine I needed to clone was booted in read-only mode, it had an ip of
10.10.220.53.
I then booted the other machine with Tom's root boot disk and gave it
the ip
10.10.220.21.  On the one I wanted to clone to, I did:
nc -l -n -v -p 6666 > /dev/sda

On the machine I wanted to clone from, I did:
cat /dev/sda | nc -n -v 10.10.220.21 6666

After a couple of hours, the command finished.  I unplugged the
network cable from the new machine (since it was a clone with the same
ip as
the other one), and rebooted.  It cloned the MBR, the partition table,
and
all of the data.  The machine seems to work perfectly.  I changed the ip
on it, and stuck it into production and it's been performing flawlessly
all
morning.

Jay
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