> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 13:20, waynej at dccmn.com wrote: >> Actually, I've been looking to write an OpenSource replacement of >> Ghost using a diskette or CD based Distro. > > I've used Trinux (http://trinux.sourceforge.net/) Thanks, I'll look at it. > I'm probably going to show more of my newb colors than I would like > here, but couldn't you just "dd -if /dev/hd?? -of /hd??-dumped" a CD/DVD > worth at a time, and burn the file to CD/DVD? Granted you're not > getting any fancy compression or anything (not that you probably > couldn't gzip it), but shouldn't dd work regardless of the file system > on the drive? And if so, what's so great about ghost then? The main problem with this is that you can't change the size of the partitions. Comes in handy when you want to transplant HDs. If the file systems were in a tar or dump image, they could be better manipulated. Which ghost can't do. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list