[Cialug] Drive Imaging

[Bailey, Jonathan C]

Doesn't G4U just dd the disk? The problem I had restoring an image was
with the OS/2 image and restoring it to a larger disk. Apparently OS/2
doesn't like that.


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of ajeffri at loopysite.org
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 10:51 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Drive Imaging

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
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