[Cialug] Drive Imaging

[ajeffri at loopysite.org]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:45:51AM -0500, Bailey, Jonathan C wrote:
> I'm looking for decent drive imaging software that runs under Linux.
> Here's my wishlist:
> 
> * Images Win9x/NT, OS/2, and anything else that you throw at it
> * Works off a bootable CD
> * Saves image files to a SAMBA share or via FTP
> * Can restore images to a different drive size (like Ghost)
> 
> I've used ghost before, but apparently it has some issues with OS/2. dd
> worked fine for the OS/2 system I had to image, but I'm thinking there
> has to be a way for dd to restore to a drive of a different size without
> borking the OS.
> 

Check out g4u. I just used it to image a bunch of Win98 (not my choice,
okay?) machines.

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

It says it can image from a larger to a smaller drive, but the one time I
tried that the new disk wouldn't boot.

-- 
Tony Jeffries