[g4u-help] Can it be done? Deploying a G4U image with dd?

[Barneck, J. <Jar...@la...>]

Hello,

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I have a customer who wants to use LANDesk to deploy the G4U images.

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LANDesk is a tool that deploys that allows an administrator to PXE boot
to WinPE or a trimmed down Linux environment.  Such an imaging task can
be deployed to multiple computers in multiple locations at once.

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The customer has a lot of images captures with G4U and does not want to
recreate the images.  However, while I can customize or PXE to allow for
PXE booting to G4U, G4U does not have a LANDesk agent for LANDesk to
send commands to, so the admin would have to go to each machine and type
in the imaging command.

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I was wondering if the following was possible.  If I boot to linux or
windows could I use dd (the linux or the win32 version) to image the
workstation?

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1.	We could gunzip the image=20
2.	Then we could copy it to a share.
3.	PXE boot to linux or WinPE
4.	LANDesk send commands to:

	a.	map a drive
	b.	run dd against the gunzipped image on the drive.
	c.	reboot

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If I could do this, what "dd" commands would be required?

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Thanks,

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Jared Barneck

LANDesk Software an Avocent(r) Company

Channel Support Manager

Email: Jar...@la...

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