Drive Imaging ToolForum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions Topic: Drive Imaging Tool started by: SideWynder Posted by SideWynder on Sep. 26 2003,16:32
Mondo Rescue (< http://www.mondorescue.org/ >) will create a image of your hard disk including all partitions (even NTFS for us dual-booters). It will write that image out to an attached network drive, a CD-R(W) or tape and the CD-R's are made bootable with the currently-running kernel. (Hmm, I wonder if that includes USB drives...)I'm not sure how well it works on Knoppix (don't have a machine with two CD drives and 'toram' locked up on me). But this would be great for DamnSmall since 'toram' uses a lot less RAM... One drawback is that NTFS partitions are bit-by-bit copies which, of course, leaves the image pretty large. The current unstable version (1.74) uses a hacked version of PartImage to leave out "empty" sectors and reduce the size of NTFS partition images. Thanks, 8) SideWynder Posted by wrayal on Sep. 26 2003,17:33
'toram'? That would be cool, but I cant sem to use it. Iv got 0.4.8, and I assume you type 'toram' as root or user, yeah? Tried both, neither works. Please help!
Posted by sevengraff on Sep. 26 2003,18:03
I've never tried this image tool thing, but it sounds interesting. It's allready in knoppix? Posted by SideWynder on Sep. 26 2003,19:08
sevengraff - Yep, I verified it last night booting to Knoppix 3.3 on my laptop. Of course, I couldn't record CD's then, but it is there.I'd like it on a LiveCD that I can boot in RAM and not have to mount any partitions... SideWynder |