Kevin Valentine has been leading up an effort in Philadelphia, here’s an update on the project from him, thanks Kevin!<\/p>\n
The “NTR Dual Boot Re-Image Project” has made considerable progress over the past few weeks. \u00c2\u00a0The NTR people liked the demo for the proposed dual-boot system. \u00c2\u00a0After that it was just a simple matter of transferring that drive image to other drives of various sizes.<\/p>\n
NTR has a drive duplicator made by Kanguru. \u00c2\u00a0Several attempts were made to make \u00c2\u00a0it work for our purposes. \u00c2\u00a0Most were successful but there were random failures on known-good drives. \u00c2\u00a0Turned out the Kanguru duplicator was bad and had to be sent back to the vendor. \u00c2\u00a0As a backup solution, a PC was set aside just for writing Xubuntu images to hard drives.<\/p>\n
After rigorous testing on Nov 14th, the PC-based solution has successfully imaged 23 hard drives of mixed makes and sizes. \u00c2\u00a0The imaging solution is a bit clumsy but it works. \u00c2\u00a0We can connect up to 5 hard drives with usb-ide adapters and image them in parallel. \u00c2\u00a0It takes about 10-15 minutes to image 5 drives. \u00c2\u00a0If the Kanguru gets fixed, things will be much faster.<\/p>\n
The next step is to test out the imaged drives by placing them in 20+ different models of desktop PCs. \u00c2\u00a0This is where we need the support of the LoCo team. \u00c2\u00a0The target date for this will be either December 6th or the 13th. \u00c2\u00a0It still needs to be discussed more with NTR and the LoCo team. \u00c2\u00a0If the drives work well on the desktop PCs, NTR should be able to move forward with full scale drive duplications and installations. \u00c2\u00a0If things continue work out, our next step is to provide a dual-boot solution on their single drive laptops. \u00c2\u00a0This could be a bit more difficult. \u00c2\u00a0We’re thinking a network imaging solution like Clonezilla could make it happen.<\/p>\n
For those of you that are new or have missed the discussions, the basic idea of this project is this: NTR needs to provide their customers with a simple solution for restoring their Windows drive. \u00c2\u00a0A simple solution was provided by installing Xubuntu on a separate drive and creating\/modifying a few scripts. \u00c2\u00a0The end result is a dual-boot, dual-drive desktop system that allows the user to boot into Windows or Xubuntu, or just restore Windows. \u00c2\u00a0More details on the project can be found here: Kevin Valentine has been leading up an effort in Philadelphia, here’s an update on the project from him, thanks Kevin! The “NTR Dual Boot Re-Image Project” has made considerable progress over the past few weeks. \u00c2\u00a0The NTR people liked the demo for the proposed dual-boot system. \u00c2\u00a0After that it was just a simple matter of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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