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Posted: Sep. 26 2003,16:32 QUOTE

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.

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8) SideWynder


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Posted: Sep. 26 2003,17:33 QUOTE

'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!
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Posted: Sep. 26 2003,18:03 QUOTE

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To run in ram boot with 'knoppix toram'.

I've never tried this image tool thing, but it sounds interesting. It's allready in knoppix?


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Posted: Sep. 26 2003,19:08 QUOTE

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


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