[H-GEN] Creating disk image

John Boggon John.B at uq.net.au
Mon Aug 9 09:19:09 EDT 1999


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Robert Stuart wrote:
> 
> John Boggon wrote:
> >
> > I have a linux box that has a cd-r drive installed. It part of a network
> >  that has a windows 98 machine in it.
> > What I'd like to do is create an image of the HD in the windows machine
> > onto a CD so that the frequent re-installs become faster and
> > less painful.

> >
> 
> John,
> 
> We use dd and tar to make disk images for installing multiple machines.
> The process we use is:  If the group of machines have exactly the same
> HW (including drive sizes etc) then we use dd to dump one machine that
> we setup as desired onto the rest of the HDDs.  This works perfectly and
> is supprisingly fast (less than 15min for a 3.2GB drive).
> 

> --
> Robert Stuart
> Ph  61-7-3864 0364

Hi Robert,
So what I'm proposing should work ?. My current plan is to use one
bootable 
floppy with the minimum on it to run dd and mount the cd drive then
write 
the image from the cd. If I can figure out how to make the cd bootable
I'll 
go that way. The hardware configuration is stable. If it changes I can
always 
generate a new image.

dd does not require the disk to be formatted ?. But it would need to be 
partitioned with the same size as the image ?

Thanks for the reply,

John.

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