Thanks for the reply.

The idea of using a VHD(X) was to enable use to use disk imaging tools such as ghost, wds etc to deploy images of this type of system to over 500 machines.

We have not found an imaging solutions that can image and deploy via multicast a system set up in the standard way you describe.

Regards

Darren Williams

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark LaPierre Sent: 22 January 2015 02:55 To: centos@centos.org; Mark LaPierre Subject: Re: [CentOS] ** Newbie - HELP **

On 01/21/15 04:30, Darren Williams wrote:

Hi ALL, Sorry for this if it is a stupid question, but:

Is it possible to native boot centos from a VHD/VHDX file in a similar way to Windows 8.1?

I am hoping to dual 'native' boot Windows 8.1 and CentOS; but then I want to Image the disk to deploy it to other classroom machines.

Any help advice would be appreciated.

I've had an unsuccessful play with easybcd's neogrub; and I have a working CentOS VM in Hyper-V - but it's the native boot I'm really interested in.

Regards

Darren

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Hey Darren,

Perhaps I'm not understanding your needs but I have to ask why you are not setting up a normal dual boot system where you install Windows first on half your hard drive, then CentOS on the other half? That would give you two systems with native boot ability. When you have that set up and running you could clone that disk for the other machines in the computer lab.

Using VM's was a suggestion I put forward but some of our staff didn't like the idea!

We can't virtualise Windows as we run many CAD and Media app's that require high end graphics card utilisation.

The Linux image is mainly used for coding type activities and so virtualising that would seem sensible - unfortunately that is not my call..

Regards

Darren Williams

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Holway Sent: 22 January 2015 17:14 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] ** Newbie - HELP **

Hi Darren,

Any reason you cant use virtualisation and / or thin client kind of action?

If for instance you have a linux hypervisor installed on each machine you could kick up a virtual machine with the required environment. dirty up the image and then replace the image with a clean centos / windows whenever you need it.

Cheers,

Andrew

On 22 January 2015 at 13:22, Darren Williams D.Williams2@bradford.ac.uk wrote:

Thanks for the reply.

The idea of using a VHD(X) was to enable use to use disk imaging tools such as ghost, wds etc to deploy images of this type of system to over 500 machines.

We have not found an imaging solutions that can image and deploy via multicast a system set up in the standard way you describe.

Regards

Darren Williams

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark LaPierre Sent: 22 January 2015 02:55 To: centos@centos.org; Mark LaPierre Subject: Re: [CentOS] ** Newbie - HELP **

On 01/21/15 04:30, Darren Williams wrote:

...

Hi ALL, Sorry for this if it is a stupid question, but:

Is it possible to native boot centos from a VHD/VHDX file in a similar way to Windows 8.1?

I am hoping to dual 'native' boot Windows 8.1 and CentOS; but then I want to Image the disk to deploy it to other classroom machines.

Any help advice would be appreciated.

I've had an unsuccessful play with easybcd's neogrub; and I have a working CentOS VM in Hyper-V - but it's the native boot I'm really interested in.

Regards

Darren

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Hey Darren,

Perhaps I'm not understanding your needs but I have to ask why you are not setting up a normal dual boot system where you install Windows first on half your hard drive, then CentOS on the other half? That would give you two systems with native boot ability. When you have that set up and running you could clone that disk for the other machines in the computer lab.

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On 22 January 2015 at 13:22, Darren Williams D.Williams2@bradford.ac.uk wrote:

The idea of using a VHD(X) was to enable use to use disk imaging tools such as ghost, wds etc to deploy images of this type of system to over 500 machines.

We have not found an imaging solutions that can image and deploy via multicast a system set up in the standard way you describe.

I haven't tried it but I thought clonezilla SE could do this?