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diff --git a/sysutils/dolly/pkg-descr b/sysutils/dolly/pkg-descr deleted file mode 100644 index 150c71b46472..000000000000 --- a/sysutils/dolly/pkg-descr +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -[ 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. |