disk imaging

[reaverone]

Hello to everyone on the forum, this is my first post!

I'm by no means a wizard with Linux, more an apprentice but there is something I'm looking into that will make my life easier and hopefully you guys can point me in the right direction.

I am looking for tools etc to create a disc that can be put in a machine much like a livecd/boot cd that will point to a image on a server and begin the imaging process on that machine. basically something like an automated dd command.

I would like to get everything done in Debian but haven't found much info via google.

I hope I have been clear enough and look forward to any suggestions.

Many Thanks

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome to the LinuxForums.

Check Ghosting for Unix and PartImage. Both have Network support.

[reaverone]

Thanks a lot, will check those out right away!

[devils casper]

Do let me know how it goes. Good Luck !

[reaverone]

Those look like pretty good tools, both seem to have their advantages but I don't think they are what I need, we don't have an ftp server and its not my network plus the images already exist.

I will try to be more clear with regards to the situation... There are Windows images (.bz2) on a network drive created using dd instead of booting from a livecd and entering another dd command to use this image to build a fresh pc for end users I am looking for a way to make this step automated.

From what I have found so far I think a livecd can be customised but I don't know what would need to be added to to make the dd command run once a customised livecd boots up.

If there are other ways to make use of .bz2 images on a network drive to build machines I will definitely look into those.

Thanks again