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diff --git a/sysutils/dolly/pkg-descr b/sysutils/dolly/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..659364d11c9f --- /dev/null +++ b/sysutils/dolly/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[ excerpt taken from distfile's README ] + +Dolly is used to clone the installation of one machine to (possibly +many) other machines. It can distribute image-files (even gnu-zipped), +partitions or whole hard disk drives to other partitions or hard +disk drives. As it forms a "virtual TCP ring" to distribute data, +it works best with fast switched networks (we were able to clone a +2 GB Windows NT partition to 15 machines in our cluster over Gigabit +Ethernet in less than 4 minutes). + +As dolly clones whole partitions block-wise it works for most +filesystems. We used it to clone partitions of the following type: +Linux, Windows NT, Oberon, Solaris (most of our machines have multi +boot setups). We have a small (additional) Linux installation on +all of our machines or use a small one-floppy-disk-linux (e.g. +muLinux) to do the cloning. On newer machines we use PXE to boot a +small system in a RAM disk. From that system we then clone the hard +disks in the machines. + +Author: Felix Rauch <rauch@inf.ethz.ch> +WWW: http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/CoPs/patagonia/dolly.html |