Links
Some utilities which I found to be very useful in creating this CD.
- Winimage:
[Windows] Utility to create and manipulate floppy images
- Bart's Page:
[Windows] Utility to create all your images, or just read the
scripts and understand how things work.
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BOOTDISK-HOWTO: [Documentation] How to create a CD based
linux system.
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Discover: [Linux] A debian utility which is used by many
Linux distribution for hardware identification.
- Symantec Ghost:
[Windows/DOS] The ghost boot wizard makes the process
of creating a DOS network boot disk almost trivial.
- VMWare:
[Windows/Linux] When you dont want to waste a CD, every time
you change one line of your script.
- mkisofs,mount: [Linux] Without the esoteric options of these
two, creating linux images, would be a real pain.
- isolinux:
[Linux] This is what makes such a dream close to possible
- Trusted Systems:
[Windows] Guidelines and utilities for securing a windows system
- HardenNT:
[Windows] Freeware, where you can specify what
kind of security you what on your machines, and it generates
some batch files. Executing these batch files on a machine
enforces your security constraints. I found this to be
very useful. I looked at the batch files it generates and got
a lot of ideas from it.
- Winguides:
[Documentation] The windows registry guide, and the windows
scripting guide. Use this to find all the registry keys you
can change in order to secure your system, change the look
and feel...
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ActivePython: [Windows] Python for Windows. Easy to
install (silently) and scripts in python can be very useful
especially if you want to talk to linux systems.
- VB Scripting: [Windows]
Download the VB Scripting documentation. A useful thing to have, even if you
are going to write your scripts in Python.
Here are some links to similar websites. Everybody has their own idea of
automation. So you can choose which you like best.
- Link
unattended.sourceforge.net: A windows deployment system
- Link
willowhayes.co.uk: Windows 2000 unattended installations and related
utilities
- Link Bart's Bootable CD:
A windows based utility to create bootable CDs. This is highly modular,
so you pick and choose what capabilities you want of the CD.
Murali krishnan
GANAPATHY
Last modified: Mon Dec 23 15:54:38 CST 2002