[H-GEN] modifying the hardware setup

[Tony Nugent]

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On Wed Nov 20 2002 at 10:22, David Jericho wrote:

> > I'm also realy interested in finding out about any open source or Linux based
> > utilities to do the same thing as Ghost.  I have heard there is something
> > available thats basically just a collection of shell scripts.  Unfortunately,
> > I've never found or seen it.
> 
> I've been meaning to have a good hard look at Mondo sometime, but I've
> never gotten around to it. If I recall correctly, the latest versions
> have added some networking ability to restore images. Still not as
> spiffy as Ghost though.

parted is getting pretty functional nowdays, and handles network
mirroring and restoring (including windows filesystems).  With a bit
more functionality added (on the way) and a nice front-end gui, it
would rival things like ghost and be able to handle all sorts of
different filesystems and installation methods.

Cheers
Tony

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