Re: Norton Ghost like utility?

["Sammy" <sammy@picostation.com>]

So basically all I need to do is create a mac-bootable CD and put linux on 
it with partimage?
Sammy

"Sven Luther" <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message 
news:20060301212932.GA7760@localhost.localdomain...
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 11:01:35PM +0200, Sammy wrote:
>> I need to find (or create) a bootable CD for my PowerBook that can have
>> software on it to simply create a full snapshot/image of my harddrive and
>> put it somewhere on the network/CDs/DVD or any other media. Does this 
>> exist?
>
> You need a live cd which include partimage. partimage can backup a 
> partition
> either on another partition (firewire disk or usb disk maybe), or through 
> the
> network to a partimage server. It further stores only used space, not
> emptyness, and allows to compress it with either bzip2 or gzip, and does
> CRC checking of the resulting image on restore.
>
> You could build a static version of the client, and download it to some 
> random
> livecd or other image, or even the ramdisk of a debian-installer image.
>
> Xavier Oswald is working to add this functionality to the debian 
> installer,
> but it will not be ready for a couple of month yet.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
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