DD

[Robert Dege]

Here's my situation.  The PC folks at my company use Ghost to image a
machine with Win2000 (with all the crimy patches, security fixes, and 3rd
party package installs).  Well, they ran out of licenses and now have to
install everything from scratch on each machine.  This almost triples the
time it takes to process a machine.

Well, me being the smart-ass linux person, I told them that I could use
linux tools to perform a similar function to Ghost.  yeah, I know.... but
anyways....

I used KNOPPIX's Boot CD, and was able to NFS mount where I had the dd
dumps stored.  So I found a way to do it, but unfortunately, dd'ing 30GB
images across a network is just wrong.  I'd use dump, but linux can't mkfs
NTFS.  And CD-Rom Recorvy doesn't support NTFS as a FS.

And this is where I'm at.

-Rob

> i belive there was a post about a week or so about mkcdrec,
> http://mkcdrec.ota.be. i've never used it but i would imagine that you
> can write the image to disk instead of the cd.
>
> Justin Bennett wrote:
> > Ghost doesn't do what you want? Powerquest Disk(Drive???) image. Something
> > like that. Haven't used it much, but a guy at work uses it alot. It makes
> > a boot disk which is actually caldera linux I believe, when it runs the
> > image and restore programs. I have a copy at that I got for evaluation
> > purposes (limewire) but I've never used it, I've only used just ghost.
> > Other than that can't tell you much about it.
> >
> >
> > Robert Dege said:
> >
> >>Does anyone know of a program that acts like Norton's Ghost?  I would
> >>use dd, but it doesn't an entire dump of the disk, instead of just the
> >>data. It makes it cumbersome when I want to image 500 Megs on a 10 gig
> >>HD.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Dege
> >>
> >>So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny
> >>.... If They Weren't Happening To Me
> >>
> >>
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> --
> Darin Perusich
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Cognigen Corp.
> darinper at cognigencorp.com
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Dege

So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny
.... If They Weren't Happening To Me