[plug] Linux Ghost alternative?

[Scott, Simon]

I was thinking the same thing.... a floppy distro that could mount the cdrom
and access the network with an nfs client would be the way to go... dd the
image, pipe thru tar and gzip, and store it on the nfs drive.. whack it on a
cd, then use the same distro to go the other way from cdrom - gunzip - tar -
dd... after setting a sufficient partition up... 

would work, no? only thing is you might need to run LILO from the floppy but
get it to set up the hard drives boot sector

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bevan Broun [mailto:bevanb at ee.uwa.edu.au]
Sent: Thursday, 13 April 2000 10:05
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Linux Ghost alternative?


on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:46:57AM +0800, Trevor Phillips
<phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au> wrote:
> ie; Something to back up and restore partitions (incl Windoze),
preferrably 
> with compression.

could you not use tar on the raw device with -z 

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