Hi, Just a FYI for everyone in HOSEF. I spoke with Scott last week about donating a free copy of Ghost (9.0) to HOSEF and have ordered it through my corporation (Symantec). I should be able to deliver it next week.
Bill Musson ----- Original Message ----- From: MonMotha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 7:30 pm Subject: Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting > > > > > there are OSS utilities that can do ftp and http install of > system image for > > Windows and *nix, but still can't re-partition during restore. > So, OSS > > utilities can do the same except resizing the partition on the fly. > > > > Almost all filesystems commonly used on linux have a tool for > resizing, at least > growing (to my knowledge only ext2 and ReiserFS can be shrunk). > This could be > done after an initial image is written. > > I guess I'm used to using Ghost to install on systems with > completely identical > hardware. It's just been my experience that windows doesn't like > getting put on > a completely different system than it was installed on. I guess > maybe MS has > addressed this, but I know Windows98 thinks it just had a brain > transplant and > goes completely nuts, often breaking itself in the frenzy of > trying to > "reinstall" all it's drivers. > > --MonMotha > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau >
