ghosting??

[slinky2004]

thanx alot blackice . just curious, what types of hard drive imaging methods are there besides ghosting and volume copy? you can just give me the names, ill google them myself

[|3lack|ce]

now that's getting into the rediculous side again. just google 'disk imaging' or 'volume imaging' like I would. To find softwares, google 'disk imaging software' - might even add 'download' to the key terms to tighten it a bit. Learn to use Google. Google is your friend. Quit asking me to do it for you.

In other words:

www.just****inggoogleit.com

[slinky2004]

im really starting to hate that site

[HTRegz]

Hey Hey,

Here's an example of a waste of a lot of space... the thread had the potential to be somewhat informative and there's now three posts with links to justf@#$inggoogleit.com... that's a little ridiculous...

As for software alternatives to ghost..

Microsoft Remote Installation Services (RIS) - If you don't want to pay for Norton Ghost, you won't want to pay for this - http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/risover.mspx

Ghost for Linux - Free... not just for linux...Named so because it's linux based... - http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l

g4u (ghost 4 Unix) - Free... again not just for unix.... - http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

Anyways..

Peace,
HT

[slinky2004]

thanx alot htregz. i didnt think my questions were that dumb i knew there had to be some free alternatives out there(i couldnt believe that the open source community didnt have their own ghosting prog).

[slinky2004]

i looked around and found a few more, drvimagerxp, driveclonerxp and a few others, but i dont see anything that allows you to create a rescue disc that will format your drive and unpack the drive image.

[HTRegz]

Originally posted here by slinky2004
i looked around and found a few more, drvimagerxp, driveclonerxp and a few others, but i dont see anything that allows you to create a rescue disc that will format your drive and unpack the drive image.

Hey Hey,

You want a custom disc with your image for free??? You'd better start working on it yourself.

Also you don't need to format first.. if you're putting a new image over top.. that would be pointless.

1. Take g4l or g4u and look at their guts.
2. Take their image extraction portions and put on a bootable CD/DVD that's running an ftp.
3. Create a simple script that runs on boots and calls the extraction program.

Boom! you have a CD/DVD that is your own rescue disk.

Peace,
HT

[slinky2004]

ill try that, i was just expecting that it would format because i have this other rescue disk that comes up with ghost and formats the drive and slaps the new image onto it, i wanted to make my own one of those. when you say "Look at their guts" do you mean hacking up their source code? i dunno if i can handle that

[|3lack|ce]

when you say "Look at their guts" do you mean hacking up their source code? i dunno if i can handle that

I'm pretty sure g4l and g4u are open source - no need to hack into it.

[slinky2004]

well, thats not what i mean, i just dont think i'll have much luck messing with their soruce code. i dont expect i'll be able to find the "image extraction portions" easily and even if i did i have no idea how to compile something thats supposed to be an iso image.

i think im gonna go with g4u, it looks like g4l is a bs copy of g4u, then again the g4u guy could just be being a jerk, i cant really tell if his arguments are valid... http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4l