[LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

[R. Scott Belford]

Thanks, All, for the ideas, insight, and initiative.  Allow me to put 
some focus on our objectives so we can adequately harness all this 
expertise.  HOSEF has donated an entire lab to McKinley.  It is a 
tri-boot lab.  Win98 lite is run during the day to serve foreign 
language classes their preferred app, Rosetta Stone.  (want to be a 
winner for HOSEF, help us get this running with wine or crossover), GRUB 
is used to boot from the Terminal Server, and now that Kevin and others 
will be offering classses in the room, we have added an install of 
Debian Sarge to the mix.

We need to image the machines as needed to preserve their ability to 
serve the foreign students their windows goodies.  If we do a Linux 
install on the machines, we need to return the lab to its initial state.

Bill Musson has been kind enough to donate a copy of the venerable tool, 
Ghost.

We would love to see an OSS solution that we can share.  Michael has 
been working with Mondo/mindi.  We have a 10/100 switch, an nfs server, 
and a platform for your expertise.  We will be gathering at McKinley on 
Saturday from 10-2, prior to the UH event, and you are invited to come 
by and help.

Pending a successful OSS solution we will  be swapping out a few 
machines to make the lab uniform, (Dell Gx1) and multicast ghosting a 
known good image.

--scott

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R. Scott Belford
Founder/Director
The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation
PO Box 392
Kailua, HI 96734
808.689.6518
scott at hosef.org