[CLUE-Tech] Poor man's Ghost?

[Michael Robbert]

Matt,
You should check out www.partimage.org
I haven't used it extensively since we had some copies of Ghost that I 
could use, but I think that it'll do the job for you. You run partimage 
as a server on one machine then boot from a floppy or CD on your laptop 
and run partimage from that pointing it at your server and choosing your 
desired level of compression. It makes an image and stores it on your 
server then when you have the new HD installed you just boot from the 
floppy again and tell it to find the image you have stored on your server.

Matt Gushee wrote:
> I'm wondering if it is feasible, using some Linux distribution or 
> other on a floppy or two or three, to:
> 
>   1. Boot up a machine and connect it to a LAN;
>   2. Mount a network drive; and
>   3. Create an image of a local partition on the network drive
>       i.e., something like:
> 
>         $ dd if=/dev/hda of=/network/drive/hda1.img
> 
> In case you're curious why, I want to copy my wife's Win98 system to 
> a new hard disk. The machine is a laptop, so we can't readily install 
> another HD alongside the existing one. And we have the product 
> recovery CD, but it's not bootable, and the boot floppy seems to be 
> in a box in her parents' barn in northern Japan.
> 
> Has anyone done something like this?
>   

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