Re: ghost for linux a.k.a g4l

Robert Moonen <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:59:38 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.mlug.main
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> I have a very questionable hardrive on a win2k box used for scada application
> and weather monitoring. I need to move everything over to a new hardrive. The
> weather software is 7 years old and install floppies are questionable. The
> scada software was for nt4 and patched up to work on win2k.
> 
> To avoid all sorts of install complications I think the best thing would be to
> ghost the old hardrive onto a new one.
> 
> The existing hd is vfat and I'll pre format the new one as vfat.
> 
> Has anyone on the list used g4l as a bootable cd and will it allow me to ghost a
> bootable system onto the new hardrive?

If you buy a harddrive of simialar geometry, you should be able to just
use dd.


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Robert G. Moonen
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