[K12OSN] OT: Using tar on win98 clients

[cliebow]

cant you just dd? ive dd'ed 40 gig drives before...chuck

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 15:51, Henry Burroughs 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 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> _______________________________________________
> K12OSN mailing list
> K12OSN at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>