Re: [uug] Disk imaging utilities

2007-02-23 Thread David B Darrough
I appreciate everyone's input. I'll look into these different options. Thanks! Dave Darrough -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Thornock Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 4:35 PM To: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: Re: [uug] Disk imaging ut

Re: [uug] Disk imaging utilities

2007-02-23 Thread Gary Thornock
--- 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 >

Re: [uug] Disk imaging utilities

2007-02-23 Thread Robert LeBlanc
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

Re: [uug] Disk imaging utilities

2007-02-23 Thread Lloyd Brown
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

[uug] Disk imaging utilities

2007-02-23 Thread David B Darrough
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