[Opensource] how to set up a lab of linux boxen

[victor rajewski]

Hi,

I'm toying with the idea of setting up a lab full of linux boxes. It
would be really nice to be able to use something like Ghost Solution
Suite to handle imaging each machine. Has anyone done anything like
this? GSS _can_ handle linux partitions, but I think it does it on a
block-by-block basis, and won't change individual files across the
images, so it can't change the hostname - each imaged machine will
have the same hostname as the source image (also ssh keys and maybe
other crypto stuff would need to be changed). There are some apps that
seem to be able to handle this - FOG, G4L (Ghost for Linux) and
clonezilla - has anyone used any of these? Does anyone have any other
solutions to this problem? Is anyone running a lab full of linux
machines?

vik