g4u - Harddisk Image Cloning for PCs

What is it?

g4u ("ghosting 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

Go there...

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

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