[TriLUG] backup up a laptop disk for replacement

[Chris Knowles]

Don't get too pessimistic.

The Salescritters are in town this week, and several of them need OS's
upgraded, Bad HD's replaced... so I decided to try G4U.  Saw the same
bit about PCMCIA, but luckily these laptops have onboard ethernet.  G4U
is currently making the first image right now, no apparent problems.

I'll let you know the results...

CJK
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 16:32, Mike Johnson wrote:
> Rodent of Unusual Size [Ken.Coar at Golux.Com] wrote:
> 
> > okey, cool.  (though i *am* using grub.)  i've never heard of
> > ghost, and google is swamping me with references.  is there
> > a pointer or a product name or something?
> 
> The product of which they speak is Symantec Ghost.  Another alternative
> for you might be Ghost for Unix:
> http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
> 
> I've not tried it myself, so if you do, please share!
> 
> Grr, of course, as I read down the page, they don't have PCMCIA support,
> so it might not work for your laptop.  If you have a desktop, though,
> you could get a 2.5" <-> 3.5" IDE adapter and dd from the laptop onto a
> drive there as an image, and then swap in the replacement drive.
> 
> Mike
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