[K12OSN] Drive copy utils... Linux Mobile Lab

[Mike Rambo]

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 13:14, pnelson wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> I have 26 new IBM laptops ready for use in our new Linux Mobile Lab. I
> have one of them all configured and ready to go. The hard drive was
> repartitioned so it now dual boots XP and Fedora Core 2.
> 
> I could use Ghost to replicate the drives on the other 25 but I don't
> want to pay for any Ghost licenses. What's the easiest way to make an
> image of this drive (both partitions) and then send it back out again to
> the other 25 machines?
> 

I haven't actually tried it with dual boot boxes but I think g4u will do
what you desire. The biggest gotcha that you can bit by with this
utility is that the target hard drive cannot be smaller than whatever
the source was. But that doesn't sound like it would be a problem here.

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/


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