[ale] "Ghosting" a Windows Machine Using Linux CD

[James P. Kinney III]

Do a freshmeat search on "recovery". The app is called "recovery is
possible". Another is called "Mondo Rescue". Both support a linux
bootable full system recovery CD that you make on the fly.

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 22:42, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Is it possible to make a recoverable "disk image" of a Windows machine
> using a bootable Linux CD along the lines of Knoppix?  The process would
> basically be:
> 
> 1.  Boot Linux CD in source machine
> 2.  Mount NFS or SMB share
> 3.  Execute magic incantation; disk data flies to mounted share
> 
> Then, the reverse process:
> 
> 1.  Boot Linux CD in target machine
> 2.  Mount NFS or SMB share
> 3.  Execute magic incantation; disk data flies from share to target 
>     machine's disk drive
> 4.  Target machine boots wo WinXX and looks/acts like the source machine
> 
> I expect that the disk drives of the source and target machines won't be
> the same but that all other hardware/peripherals will be. 
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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