Hi fsck, I'm excited to announce FlashMagic, the collection of tools you need for a rainy day, has its first release ever 10.01 "Bunny".
For those of you who are not familiar with FlashMagic, it is a collection of tools to allow you make images/restore/clear passwords/upgrade bios/recover data/resize partitions/diagnose HDD/hardware problems on a bootable USB flash drive. This version has the following improvements: - Parted Magic 4.6 -> 4.8. New tools for ext4fs. - NT password/reg editor. - Memtest86. Installation: - You have to have a USB drive, anything >= 128MB is fine. You can still store data on the drive after the drive is fmagic'd. - You have to run linux to excute the USB creation tool. Sorry MacOS and Windows users! A Windows USB creation tool might be available later, but I'm not really interested in doing it now. - Download latest Bunny at http://github.com/htruong/flashmagic/tarball/master - Ungzip and Untar the archive. - Call sudo ./create-usb /dev/sdb (where sdb is your flash drive) This will format your flash drive, so back up your data. Also, it will not work with syslinux < .70 (the one that comes with ubuntu is .63), so you might want to compile syslinux first. - More information? cat README I'm planning to do an distro to do automated backup/restoration of a Windows (linux?) installation (kind of a ghost thing, but for noobs), so if anyone is interested, please let me know. - H.
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