[Cialug] opinions on free software Ghost alternatives?

[David Champion]

Nathan Stien wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:49 PM,  <ewenix at raccoon.com> wrote:
>   
>> I'd use either Clonezilla or UBCD which has acronis true image.
>>     
>
> I'm in the middle of trying Clonezilla (seemed fancy, supported ssh,
> and has documentation), but it's spooking me a little.
>
> During the boot process, the output kept halting.  The first time I
> didn't realize it was halted.  I pressed the shift key experimentally,
> and another line of output appeared.  I had to periodically keep
> coming back to the machine and pressing shift to get it to continue to
> boot.
>
> I don't think it was just showing me delayed output from the boot,
> because holding shift didn't just fly through all the output to the
> end.  It would get to its next stage of device probing (or whatever)
> and take nonzero time while it did its thing.
>
> Any idea what would cause this?  (In general with Linux, I mean.)
>
> - Nathan
>   

Is it possible that you've gotten a hold of a debug / testing version? 
Is there another build available?

I looked at the clonezilla web site, it sounds pretty slick, will be 
interested to hear how it works for you.

-dc