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Just a thought, you could make one system. on FAT32 format, then ghost them all, then covert the partition to NTFS. Unless I am missing something...... which is very possible of course.............
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On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 20:24, Robert Dege wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Here's my situation. The PC folks at my company use Ghost to image a</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>machine with Win2000 (with all the crimy patches, security fixes, and 3rd</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>party package installs). Well, they ran out of licenses and now have to</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>install everything from scratch on each machine. This almost triples the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>time it takes to process a machine.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Well, me being the smart-ass linux person, I told them that I could use</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>linux tools to perform a similar function to Ghost. yeah, I know.... but</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>anyways....</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I used KNOPPIX's Boot CD, and was able to NFS mount where I had the dd</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>dumps stored. So I found a way to do it, but unfortunately, dd'ing 30GB</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>images across a network is just wrong. I'd use dump, but linux can't mkfs</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>NTFS. And CD-Rom Recorvy doesn't support NTFS as a FS.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>And this is where I'm at.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>-Rob</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> i belive there was a post about a week or so about mkcdrec,</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> http://mkcdrec.ota.be. i've never used it but i would imagine that you</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> can write the image to disk instead of the cd.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Justin Bennett wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > Ghost doesn't do what you want? Powerquest Disk(Drive???) image. Something</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > like that. Haven't used it much, but a guy at work uses it alot. It makes</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > a boot disk which is actually caldera linux I believe, when it runs the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > image and restore programs. I have a copy at that I got for evaluation</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > purposes (limewire) but I've never used it, I've only used just ghost.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > Other than that can't tell you much about it.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> ></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> ></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > Robert Dege said:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> ></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >>Does anyone know of a program that acts like Norton's Ghost? I would</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >>use dd, but it doesn't an entire dump of the disk, instead of just the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >>data. It makes it cumbersome when I want to image 500 Megs on a 10 gig</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >>HD.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >>Dege</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >></FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >>So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >>.... If They Weren't Happening To Me</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >></FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> --</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Darin Perusich</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Dege</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>.... If They Weren't Happening To Me</FONT></FONT></I>
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