[NCLUG] Re: NCLUG digest, Vol 1 #353 - 1 msg

[Mario Pons]

Hi Gab, thanks for your help mate, it's worked fine :)

Greetings from the Canaries...

Mario

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*Lluco Pons, (Mario), Suburbio en Undernet       *       
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*Muchos saludos y a cuidarse que la vida sigue!!!*
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Gabriel L Somlo wrote:

> 
> Mario,
> 
> You probably want to use
> 
> 	dd if=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=655360 | gzip -v9 > file_on_nfs
> 
> to create the cloning image for the first 640Mb of your hard disk.
> 
> I don't really know if this is kosher though, I would still get the whole
> disk image to be safe.
> 
> If you haven't dd-ed from /dev/zero before instaling windows, to make sure
> all your unused disk space contains only 0-s, you could still create one
> large file full of 0-s on your windows machine after compressing the disk,
> until you fill the disk with it. This would make sure that when you gzip
> the output of dd, the unused portion will compress well.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Gabriel
> 
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> >    1. ghosting a windows box (Mario Pons)
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> > Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:27:28 +0100 (BST)
> > From: Mario Pons <vricc at westminster.ac.uk>
> > To: nclug at nclug.org
> > Subject: [NCLUG] ghosting a windows box
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> > Hi Gabriel, I've come across a message you once wrote about backing up a
> > functional system inorder to ghost it to a number of similar (or perhaps I
> > should say exact) systems. 
> > Well first of all let me introduce myself, my name is Mario, and I-m some
> > kind of system admin/maintentance guy of a international school in the
> > Canary Islands, Spain. Our lab has a number of pcs all with same specs.
> > I've been investigating and trying out a few things, but I'm having some
> > trouble getting this cloning thing to work. There are a few things I would
> > like to ask you. My functional system is farely small (win98, office, and
> > a few bits and bobs, whole thing less than 640Mb) So my aim is
> > eithercreating a CD, or ddeing only the desired information... My guess is
> > once windowz is working fine, defrag the disk so that all data is in
> > beggining of disk, and then dd from sector 0 ??? to sector whatever but
> > somehow after the end of the data around 640Mb did u understand? The thing
> > is I dont know exactly if you can do this with dd... can you specify the
> > amount of data you want to dd?
> > Thanks for your time :)
> > 
> > Greetings, Mario
> > 
> > 
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