On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Kshitiz kshitij_kotak@hotmail.com wrote:
Want to know how to tie up an installation to a particular HDD.
Hi Kshitiz,
You've already got bunch of suggestions but I think I should give my precious comments too!
We do Linux implementations and had seen people ghost the whole harddisks to save on implementation charges. Currently we are using a commercial solution that costs us dear and does not let us bring down the cost of deployment. What we thus require is:
Can't they use 'clonezilla' instead of ghost?
- We can tie up the installation with the hdd serial number with some command / application that can...
a. Check the harddisk serial number before booting (may be through GRUB - but to my knowledge, such a command does not exist within GRUB). b. Delete the installed partition where we have installed our deployment and applications if not matching. c. Encrypt the data partition with a key that only we can decrypt.
You should sell 'pre-installed' HDD. Problem solved!
- We can run our entire installation from a DVD provided that is tied with an online system which will not allow the system to boot unless the key matches with the one in our database.
Bad idea. How do you connect Internet without booting system?