I appreciate everyone's input. I'll look into these different options.
Thanks!
Dave Darrough
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Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 4:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [uug] Disk imaging ut
--- David B Darrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a couple of computers that I will be flattening and
> reinstalling Windows (yesI know) for my apartment
> complex. I will be doing this every semester or so to clean up
> what guests have done to the system and restore the computers
>
Partimage should work well for Linux and seems to be very flexible. I
haven't used it, but I've looked at it a few times. It has experimental
support for Windows (NTFS).
When I moved my servers to VMs, I looked into a few options. I used VMWare's
P2V tool for my Window's computer and migrated my L
One of the simplest things would be to just boot up into a live CD of
some kind, and use dd to copy the disk image to or from somewhere else.
It wouldn't offer any compression, and you'd have to figure out some
place to put the images, etc., but it should work. The nice thing is
you can use somet
I have a couple of computers that I will be flattening and reinstalling
Windows (yesI know) for my apartment complex. I will be doing this
every semester or so to clean up what guests have done to the system and
restore the computers to their original state. Is there any good, easy and
free