Use Norton/Symantec's "Ghost." It practically copies anything to disk and
back again. Once you've ghosted it to disk, its browsable under Windoze,
and, as long as you don't change ANYTHING using any Windoze utilities, you
should be able to Ghost it back to a working drive for your lagacy system.
Cheers!
Ed
San Antonio, Tx, USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Doc Shipley [mailto:doc_at_mdrconsult.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 11:56 PM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: making disk images
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Robert F. Schaefer wrote:
> Anyone know of an easy to make and restore disk images on peasea hardware?
> I've got a few on-topic boxes that I want to use for projects, but I also
> don't want to blow away the existing software as some of it is interesting
> and hard-to-replace. Bonus points if the image is browsable after moving
> but it must be able to restore to an identical state from basically the
bare
> metal. What I'm thinking of is a NetBSD boot disk with enough software in
> the ramdisk to dd an image onto and off of an NFS mount, but before I
start
> in on it I was wondering if anyone else had a solution.
Tom's Root/Boot Disk
http://www.toms.net/rb
Doc
Received on Mon Mar 03 2003 - 00:21:01 GMT