Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-08-09 Thread vivek khurana
--- Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For Batch-B Linux partitions I have two questions: A. Is there any short way of cloning the partition table of a master, including resizing of Windows Partition? Clonig and resizing together? These are two atomic operations better kept separate.

Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-08-08 Thread Anand Shankar
On 7/18/07, Sudev Barar wrote: On 16/07/07, vivek khurana wrote: --- Anand Shankar wrote: Looking for a cool, snap to setup with defaults, fast to finish solution for cloning disks over network: Have a look at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ . Might solve our problem. Anand Did you

Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-08-08 Thread Anand Shankar
Intentionally separated the mail for one more issue. We received the PCs in two lots, Batch-A plain vanilla FreeDOS on 160GB disks, so installing WinXP and Linux and ghosting it was simple. Batch-B same make and hardware, but with WinXP preinstalled. For Batch-B we have resized the Windows

Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-07-19 Thread Yashpal Nagar
On 7/18/07, Kishore Bhargava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually used g4u very successfully to clone disks. Not only that, the disk I was cloning was actually broken and none of the disk recovery tools wanted to work on it. Once I cloned it, I then recovered everything from the cloned disk. I

Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-07-18 Thread Kishore Bhargava
Sudev Barar wrote: On 16/07/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for a cool, snap to setup with defaults, fast to finish solution for cloning disks over network: Have a look at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ . Might solve our problem.

Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-07-18 Thread Sudev Barar
On 18/07/07, Kishore Bhargava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ . Might solve our problem. Anand Did you try this? Some where else I read about netcat and dd being used. Do share your experience. I actually used g4u very successfully to clone

Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-07-18 Thread Vikas Rawal
I actually used g4u very successfully to clone disks. Not only that, the disk I was cloning was actually broken and none of the disk recovery tools wanted to work on it. Once I cloned it, I then recovered everything from the cloned disk. I now carry g4u as part of my toolkit! Thanks for

Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-07-17 Thread Sudev Barar
On 16/07/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for a cool, snap to setup with defaults, fast to finish solution for cloning disks over network: Have a look at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ . Might solve our problem. Anand Did you try

[ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-07-16 Thread Anand Shankar
Looking for a cool, snap to setup with defaults, fast to finish solution for cloning disks over network: Issue at hand: I have a master PC setup, which needs to be replicated to some 30+ other PCs. 160GB HDD with dual boot WinXP[ntfs]-FC7[ext3] setup. Do'nt want to plug out the disks and do a dd

Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-07-16 Thread vivek khurana
--- Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for a cool, snap to setup with defaults, fast to finish solution for cloning disks over network: Have a look at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ . Might solve our problem. regards VK Engineers normally have problem with every solution. If not