hi ya...
yeah.... i ususlly use tar...
except for partitions that are like 90% full than i dd' um....
and yeah...all of the "system" is already on cdrom.... but guess
some like to burn a "installed cdrom"... oh well...
- hopefuly thats patched and debugged and cleaned up version
and always check your backs before putting it aside...
like "lilo" it...after dd'ing
c ya
alvin
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 05:54:35PM -0800):
> > > Is there ne open-source clone or equivalent of Norton Ghost ? I want to
> > > ghost my debian box before fiddlin around with it..
>
> this is the beauty about a non-obscure os: i did this many times
> before and i never really wanted some ghost format somewhere that i
> could only restore as full.
>
> so instead i used a spare machine to feed a tar cf - / output into ssh
> and compiled a tar file on the other side, excluding /cdrom, /floppy,
> and /proc. in my case, it fit onto a cdr without /home, so i burnt
> home separately.
>
> now, if i wanted to repartition or take a new drive, partition it,
> boot a boot disk, mount the harddrive appropriately, and untar into /.
> install lilo, and that's it. beautious!
>
> martin
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