ghost for unix

• 1. What is it?

  g4u ("ghost for unix") is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs using FTP. The floppy/CD offers two functions. The first is to upload the compressed image of a local harddisk to a FTP server, the other is to restore that image via FTP, uncompress it and write it back to disk. Network configuration is fetched via DHCP. As the harddisk is processed as an image, any filesystem and operating system can be deployed using g4u. Easy cloning of local disks as well as partitions is also supported.

  For the curious, I've added a few screenshots:

  1. Booting g4u in bochs
  2. Device detection
  3. Welcome to g4u!
  4. Some random g4u commands
  5. Uploading a disk image with uploaddisk
  6. Restoring with slurpdisk

  2. Why not one of the alternatives?

  • Server-part often runs (only) under DOS/Windows. I wanted to use a Unix based server.
  • Supported filesystems include everything from Microsoft, but others are not handled properly (Solaris/x86, NetBSD, ...)
  • I don't want to deal (ever again) with making a DOS-based bootfloppy, that gets its IP-number via DHCP.
  • I've played with doing multicast-based deployment based on imm, but the result was so slow I decided not to persue it.

  3. Requirements & Download

  • Two empty 1.44MB floppy disks, or an empty CD-R/RW
  • A FTP-server with some GB free space
  • A DHCP-server

  In addition to that, you may want:

   

  • The g4u 2.1 floppy images (zipped/ uncompressed floppy one and floppy two))
  • The g4u 2.1 ISO CD image (zipped/uncompressed)
  • The g4u 2.1 source

  Older versions of g4u are available as well:

  • The g4u 1.17 floppy images (zipped/ uncompressed floppy)
  • The g4u 1.17 ISO CD image (zipped/uncompressed)
  • The g4u 1.17 source

  You can also download from one of these mirrors:

  • Australia
  • Canada

  4. Using it

  4.1 Preparations

  • Using the g4u floppy images:
    1. Download the two floppy images, g4u-2.1-1.fs and g4u-2.1-2.fs or g4u-2.1.fs.zip, which contains these two files.
    2. If you downloaded the g4u-2.1.fs.zip file, unpack it to get g4u-2.1-1.fs and g4u-2.1-2.fs
    3. Write the two images to two seperate floppy disk. Under Unix, a simple "cat g4u-2.1-1.fs >/dev/diskette" (and same for -2.fs) will do. Make yourself familiar with the name of your floppy device, some common ones are:

        

       • NetBSD: /dev/fd0a
       • Solaris: /dev/diskette
       • Linux: /dev/fd0

       There are also similar devices for USB sticks, but you need to grab the g4u.fs from the ISO to put there:

        

       • NetBSD: /dev/sd0d
       • Linux: /dev/sd0

       If you're using DOS, use rawrite.exe. There's also a Windows-based program available called rawr32.zip.

  • Using the g4u CDROM ISO image:
    1. Download the CDROM ISO image, g4u-2.1.iso or g4u-2.1.iso.zip
    2. If you downloaded the g4u-2.1.iso.zip file, unpack it to get g4u-2.1.iso
    3. Please consult your CDROM writing software (Nero, DiskJuggler, WinOnCD, cdrecord, ...) 's manual on how to write the g4u.iso file to a CDROM. Note that the image is bootable.

     

  • On a FTP server of your choice, create an user-account called "install", and protect it with some password. Make sure the 'install' user can login via ftp (/etc/shells...)

    If you want to use a different account, you can specify "login@server" for slurpdisk, uploaddisk etc..

  • Make sure you have a working DHCP server that hands out IP addresses and other data needed to access the FTP server from your workstation (name server, netmask, default gateway). Else you will have to set the IP-number manually..

  4.2 Image creation

  • Boot the CD or floppy on the machine you want to clone. See it read the kernel from disk, then print out all the devices found in the machine. It will do DHCP next, asking for an IP number - be sure you have DHCP configured properly! At the end you'll get a text description of possible commands, and a shell prompt.

     

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