[techtalk] Disk imaging software (was: Re: Other OSes on a Linux
box)
Michael Carson
mikecarson at usa.net
Wed Jan 5 21:06:04 EST 2000
jennyw at griffon.personic.com wrote:
> On the subject of annoying installs ...
>
> One thing that I've seen a lot of in the Windows world is imaging products
> like Ghost and ImageCast -- basically, the make an image of a hard disk and
> put it in a file. You can then use this file to re-image other computers.
> When you have a complex installation, and you have a lot of identical
> installations to do, this can be a great time saver (probably not a big deal
> for home users, but it's a lifesaver for those 20+ computer installations).
> Is there something like this that includes support for Linux, too, which
> would help in Samantha's case? I think Ghost 6.0 now supports Linux, but PC
> Week said there were a few bugs in 6.0. I believe that many products can
> image a Linux partition, but that it can't browse it, change it, or do
> anything else interesting to it.
I've used a Linux floppy bootable system with dd on it to do this... You
can't change things around then, but it works for identical installs.
C.
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