[gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost?

2005-02-14 Thread Raphael Melo
Hi there, This is my first post on this list, I work at the University of Brasilia and we're planning a large scale migration to Open Source, removing Windows completely from our computers. But, installing one by one is not viable. Since the hardware of most of the machines is the same, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost?

2005-02-14 Thread fire-eyes
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 14:44 -0200, Raphael Melo wrote: Hi there, This is my first post on this list, I work at the University of Brasilia and we're planning a large scale migration to Open Source, removing Windows completely from our computers. But, installing one by one is not viable.

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost?

2005-02-14 Thread Andres Moore
Fala raphael! ;) emerge mondo-rescue Andres On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:44:34 -0200, Raphael Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, This is my first post on this list, I work at the University of Brasilia and we're planning a large scale migration to Open Source, removing Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost?

2005-02-14 Thread Tony Boom
Hello Raphael, Monday, February 14, 2005, 4:44:34 PM, you wrote: RM So, I'd appreciate if anyone had any suggestions of open source RM programs that do the same task as it does. Well it's not open source but I use Acronis True Image. I make regular backups with it and it's got me out of

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost?

2005-02-14 Thread Martin Scharrer
On Monday 14 February 2005 16:44, Raphael Melo wrote: same, I want to install it in one, and then just copy the image of it to all the others. Yet, I do not know any tool besides Norton Ghost and we don't have the license for it. So, I'd appreciate if anyone had any suggestions of open

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost?

2005-02-14 Thread Mohamed Badri
Hi, you should see partimage : http://www.partimage.org/ It run on network, so you can remotely save and restore your partitions works with : ext2, ext3, reiser, fat16 and 32, jfs, xfs an others. I use it to backup and restore my gentoo servers, and it works well. Selon Tony Boom [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost?

2005-02-14 Thread Marc-Eric Dupuis
dd if=/dev/hda2 bs=8M | gzip -c /home/backups/winxp.image.gz If you are going to compress it it might be a good idea to zero out unused space on the partition: dd if=/dev/zero of=delete_me;sync;rm delete_me Personally I prefer to use partimage from sysrescuecd. Ciao Baal -- The

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost? - Thanks everyone

2005-02-14 Thread Raphael Melo
I'd like to thank all the sugestions. I'll take them all into consideration :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost?

2005-02-14 Thread Richard Robson
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 14:44 -0200, Raphael Melo wrote: This is my first post on this list, I work at the University of Brasilia and we're planning a large scale migration to Open Source, removing Windows completely from our computers. Music to our ears! But, installing one by one is

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost?

2005-02-14 Thread Nick Rout
you could try g4u (ghost for unix) http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:44:34 -0200 Raphael Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, This is my first post on this list, I work at the University of Brasilia and we're planning a large scale migration to Open Source, removing

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost?

2005-02-14 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Raphael Melo wrote: Hi there, This is my first post on this list, I work at the University of Brasilia and we're planning a large scale migration to Open Source, removing Windows completely from our computers. But, installing one by one is not viable. Since the hardware of most of the machines

RE: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost?

2005-02-14 Thread Greg Lindberg
] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost? Raphael Melo wrote: Hi there, This is my first post on this list, I work at the University of Brasilia and we're planning a large scale migration to Open Source, removing Windows completely from our computers. But, installing one by one

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Equivalent to Norton Ghost? - Thanks everyone

2005-02-14 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:25:16 -0200, Raphael Melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to thank all the sugestions. I'll take them all into consideration :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list g4u or it's illegal fork g4l partimage is pretty picky about it's friends but if you only use