[nzlug] GParted for recovery CD?

[Nick Rout]

you boot g4u from a floppy or over the network, then run some basic
commandline programs to restore it from ftp. Its all on the website,
very simple instructions.


On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:11:57 +1200
Sid Bachtiar wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> thanks for the prompt replies.
> 
> But, how do you restore the disk? I'm thinking something that produces
> a recovery-bootable-CD, or something close.
> 
> On 7/24/06, Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz> wrote:
> > You could try g4u (ghost for unix)
> >
> > It tars an entire disk or partition and ftp's it to another machine.
> >
> > http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:48:59 +1200
> > Sid Bachtiar wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was looking for an equivalent of Norton Ghost for
> > > Ubuntu/Debian/Linux when someone told me about GParted
> > > (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php). I've been searching and
> > > reading about it but still not sure if it is really what I'm looking
> > > for. I'm hoping someone here might be able to guide me a little bit
> > > more on this.
> > >
> > > I have Ubuntu installed and running well on one of my old machines.
> > > I'm looking for a way to create a snapshot of the system in ISO
> > > file(s), burn it to a CD (or several CDs), then incase of my system
> > > turns to mess, I want to be able to use these CDs to restore the
> > > system.
> > >
> > > Kind Regards,
> > >
> > > Sid
> > >
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