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[ale] "Ghosting" a Windows Machine Using Linux CD
- Subject: [ale] "Ghosting" a Windows Machine Using Linux CD
- From: hbbs at comcast.net (Jeff Hubbs)
- Date: Mon Jan 19 22:48:49 2004
Is it possible to make a recoverable "disk image" of a Windows machine
using a bootable Linux CD along the lines of Knoppix? The process would
basically be:
1. Boot Linux CD in source machine
2. Mount NFS or SMB share
3. Execute magic incantation; disk data flies to mounted share
Then, the reverse process:
1. Boot Linux CD in target machine
2. Mount NFS or SMB share
3. Execute magic incantation; disk data flies from share to target
machine's disk drive
4. Target machine boots wo WinXX and looks/acts like the source machine
I expect that the disk drives of the source and target machines won't be
the same but that all other hardware/peripherals will be.
- Jeff