[K12OSN] OT: Using tar on win98 clients

[Henry Burroughs]

Thank you for the suggestions on imaging/ghosting!   I had forgotten
completely about parted's resize ability (My version of knoppix lacks
parted), so I had just used fdisk. I'm back on track, and got 2 more
systems done (and have converted/fixed almost all the images I went
through the trouble of creating)!

This list is a great resource... both on and off topic. =)

Henry Burroughs


On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 17:04, Daniel Hogan wrote:

> This is what I normally do in Knoppix.  I'm assuming that the harddrive is hda.
> 
> On the harddrive you wish to copy from:
> 
> 1. Using QTParted, shrink the size of the partition(s) so that it will
> fit on the smaller harddrive.  I usually go for anything smaller than
> the size of the smallest harddrive.
> 2. dd if=/dev/hda of=myimage.mbr bs=512 count=1
> 3. sfdisk -d /dev/hda > myimage.sfdisk
> 4. Use partimage to copy the partition(s) from the harddrive.
> 
> On the harddrive wish to copy to (I'm assuming hda on a different computer):
> 
> 1. dd if=myimage.mbr of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
> 2. sfdisk /dev/hda < myimage.sfdisk
> 3. Use partimage to write the image to the harddrive.
> 4. Use QTParted to resize the partition to whatever size you wish.
> 5. Reboot.
> 
> I usually mount a samba share and store the myimage.mbr,
> myimage.sfdisk, and the partition image files on it so that I can
> easily access it from the other computers.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:51:49 -0400, Henry Burroughs
> <hburroughs at hhprep.org> wrote:
> >  I know this is a bit off topic, but I'm doing the ever necessary task of
> > ghosting.  I would be using partimage (and I was), except some of the hard
> > disks are different sizes (and partimage doesn't support shrinking).  I'm
> > using a knoppix cd  (3.4 i think).
> >  
> >  I'm trying tar (trying to keep it simple), and when I restore the image
> > onto a fresh drive, it still won't boot properly (I'm even using msdos fdisk
> > /mbr to reset the MBR).  So the MBR is in place, it just doesn't want to
> > load from there.  Any suggestions or hints?  THanks.
> >  
> >  Basically, my requirements are a imaging program (or tar) that handles
> > restoring to smaller drives (of course, big enough for the actual data).
> >  
> >  I've spent waaaay too much time trying to get this monster to work.
> >  
> >  Henry 
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