I need manual to save harddisk as image via nfs over network

['chris']

hi

I'm looking for a manual to save harddisk as image via nfs over network
using knoppix and after that clone win2k clients.

regards
chris

[Elmar P. Kolkman · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure I understand your question correctly, but to create a diskimage you have the dd command.

So what you need to do is:
mount : /mnt
dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/imagefile bs=1024
umount /mnt

On the other site, you can now unpack the image file to harddisk like this from knoppix:
mount : /mnt
dd of=/dev/hda if=/mnt/imagefile bs=1024
umount /mnt

Remember to disconnect your network cable before you boot from the harddisk, because it will have the same configuration, like IP addresses. Unless you use dhcp, of course. Also, this will only work if the machines are exactly the same on hardware (same network interface, same monitor, same video card, same ...) level. MS has better ways to do this by creating an install image. Perhaps you'd better do that and then put that on the NFS server. Or look into the tool 'ghost'.