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

[Gabriel L Somlo]

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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      Gabriel L.  Somlo                 Assistant System Administrator
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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 :)
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> Greetings, Mario
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> *Lluco Pons, (Mario), Suburbio en Undernet       *       
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