making disk images

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Mon Mar 3 12:44:52 2003

What kind of disk are you talking about? I use a Minix boot for that
sort of thing because it's quite fast, but it doesn't work with large
images.

Peace... Sridhar

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.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
Received on Mon Mar 03 2003 - 12:44:52 GMT