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[ excerpt taken from distfile's README ]
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Dolly is used to clone the installation of one machine to (possibly
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many) other machines. It can distribute image-files (even gnu-zipped),
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partitions or whole hard disk drives to other partitions or hard
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disk drives. As it forms a "virtual TCP ring" to distribute data,
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it works best with fast switched networks (we were able to clone a
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2 GB Windows NT partition to 15 machines in our cluster over Gigabit
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Ethernet in less than 4 minutes).
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As dolly clones whole partitions block-wise it works for most
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filesystems. We used it to clone partitions of the following type:
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Linux, Windows NT, Oberon, Solaris (most of our machines have multi
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boot setups). We have a small (additional) Linux installation on
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all of our machines or use a small one-floppy-disk-linux (e.g.
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muLinux) to do the cloning. On newer machines we use PXE to boot a
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small system in a RAM disk. From that system we then clone the hard
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disks in the machines.
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Author: Felix Rauch <rauch@inf.ethz.ch>
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WWW: http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/CoPs/patagonia/dolly.html
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