[luau] Ghost for Linux and Pattition Image

[Warren Togami]

bhoward at hale.org wrote:

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>Yep, several people I know who use ghost for mass deployment of NT and
>other DOS family systems swear by it and tell me that they haven't
>found any application "magic" numbers it couldn't handle (or that the
>ghost development team couldn't make handle within a few days of
>reporting a problem).
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>MonMotha> However, on UNIX, I can't think of anything a specialized
>MonMotha> program would offer over dd and netcat :)
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>Maybe it just offers a degree of branding "security" for the novice
>user and perhaps a little cleverness at figuring out things like the
>blocksizes.
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>					    Bruce
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Perhaps my understanding of these tools is inaccurate, but I thought 
that nothing Open Source came close to the capabilities of tools like 
Ghost.  For example, we have nothing like the multicasting features. 
 None of our tools are nearly as polished either.