willisoften Posted August 31, 2004 Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 Open Source Disk Imaging? What I want: Create an image of any partition Fat 32 / Reiser FS / NTFS / EXT3 etc Boot from and works from a couple of floppies or a single CD. No installation on specific hardware required(This is one of the things that really annoys me about Ghost. you got to install the Windows version to create the DOS boot disc containing Ghost.exe I've seen a few when I Googled but I'd like a reccomendation or two. Sorry Mr/Mrs/Miss Moderator - move this for me please. [moved from Offtopic by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted August 31, 2004 Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 partimage ? :unsure: http://partimage.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willisoften Posted September 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2004 partimage ? :unsure: http://partimage.org/ <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Doesn't quite cut it, as it still doesn't write to NTFS (although it can if you make it). I'm doing this at work so I'm prepared get someone else to pay! It would do 90% of the machines thoug Does partimage back up the mbr as part of the image or is it still something that has to be done seperately? If seperately it's not something I could rely on users to look after. There seems to be a suggestion that it does - but the documentation still mentions backing it up seperately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted September 1, 2004 Report Share Posted September 1, 2004 Does partimage back up the mbr as part of the image or is it still something that has to be done seperately? Sorry, I don't know. I've had installed partimage but realized that wasn't the right tool for what I needed so I gave up. Perhaps you could have a look at the dd command and see if it can help. Looks very powerfull but the man page is crap imo. Just an idea. Good luck anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted September 2, 2004 Report Share Posted September 2, 2004 I haven't messed with the MBR with partimage but I recall seeing this in the visual GUI. That feature has been around forever.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted September 2, 2004 Report Share Posted September 2, 2004 actually this has been bugging me as well. i have tried partimage+smb but i got nowhere. keep me posted if you see something new. thanks. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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