[nflug] nc multicast

[Darin Perusich]

Have you looked at the Debian auto-install or systemimager for
provisioning your systems? These types of tools allow you to network
boot (pxe) your systems and you can walk away and the OS will be
installed. I've never used these particular tools but I do use Solaris
Jumpstart, SuSE autoyast, Perceus for diskless systems, and they're
indispensable, especially if you don't want to spend all your time
installing operating systems.

Eric Benoit wrote:
> sorry, I meant speed things up by imaging more than one computer at a time
> 
> Cyber Source wrote:
>> I'll tell you what I do but what are the times were talking about? How
>> much time for how much data?
>>
>> Eric Benoit wrote:
>>> zcat ./my.img.gz | nc 192.168.10.10 9000
>>>
>>> nc -l -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sda
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm using the setup above to image hard drives ...one computer at a
>>> time ...works great, but I want to speed things up...
>>>
>>> does this look right:
>>>
>>> source(192.168.10.10) image command:
>>> zcat ./my.img.gz | nc -b -p 9000
>>>
>>>
>>> destination command:
>>> nc -l -n 192.168.10.10 -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sda
>>>
>>> and another destination command:
>>> nc -l -n 192.168.10.10 -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sda
>>>
>>> and another destination command:
>>> nc -l -n 192.168.10.10 -p 9000 | dd of=/dev/sda
>>>
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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corporation
395 Youngs Rd.
Williamsville, NY 14221
Phone: 716-633-3463
Email: darinper at cognigencorp.com