DD

[Andrew Rokitka]

one thing I have been trying to do is use ntbackup.exe.  if all of the
machines share a common hardware profile, you can get a backup of a
fully-functional system, and restore it to machines with a fresh
install of win2k.  

this ONLY works if the hardware is almost the same.  I say almost
because p-n-p will pick up different NIC's, video cards, sound cards,
etc...if your PCs have different motherboards, it just wont work.  


--- Robert Dege <rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Dege
> 
> So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny
> .... If They Weren't Happening To Me
> 


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