Re: [Nolug] Netboot utilities using Linux

Check out g4u (ghost 4 unix). I haven't used it before but heard good
things... and it is NetBSD based so it has to be cool. :)

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

-ray

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Andrew S. Johnson wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience netbooting Linux on a PC
> to run some utilities for cloning and maybe other sysadmin
> stuff? My kids have windoze PC's for their games, and I'd
> like to use a free (as in speech) method of cloning, instead
> of the old DOS based version of Drive Image I use now.
> I'm not looking to do LTSP yet, since their games need
> directx and all. I've gotten the GRUB netboot floppy to load
> vmlinuz and initrd.gz from my tftp server, which gets me to
> a bash prompt and a few things in an 8 meg ram fs. I think
> I may have to go to a diskless-root-NFS type setup to get
> what I want. Any ideas or hints?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy Johnson
>
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