On 12/15/05, Arafangion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 15 December 2005 13:25, William Ballard wrote: > > I literally would be unable to use Microsoft Windows if I couldn't stay > > mostly booted in Debian and manage that godawfulness with partimage. > > > > Every time I boot into it I restore a clean partimage of XP, let it puke > > all over itself, then restore the cleanness. > > > > It's the only thing that makes patching Windows remotely tolerable. > > > > Eventually partimage will stop working on new versions of NTFS, and it > > seems to not be maintained anymore. It was removed from Sarge. > > > > Are there other tools that work like Ghost but in Linux? Partimage is > > great. > > You could use dd, and compress the image, or use an emulator with a COW disk > image. >
Here is a cool one liner for the above : dd if=/dev/hda bs=1k conv=sync,noerror | gzip -c | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] "gzip -d | dd of=/dev/hda bs=1k" For more info, read : http://slice.med.uottawa.ca/public/manuals/ImageDisk.html > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Cheers, Maxim Vexler (hq4ever). Do u GNU ?
