Hi there,
Doesn't seem like anyone has given the obvious solution yet, so here
goes.
There's a great Unix disk imaging package available called "dd". Works
like a charm. There are a few documents describing things in more detail
but I'll give you an overview. You'll need to check the actual command
lines before entering any of this stuff.
First thing to do is grab yo'self a copy of tom's root and boot
http://www.toms.net/rtbt/
And make a floppy as described in the instructions.
You may also need to add smbclient to the disk if you need to dump your
image to a Windows box. There are instructions around somewhere on the
tomsrtbt site. If not keep looking.. I've seen them I just don't
remember where, sorry.
You're going to be creating one big file which is a copy of your hard
disk, so SMB or not you'll need some way of putting the file on the server.
Now boot using your tomsrtbt.
Use smbmount (or whatever) to mount a directory on your Windows box in
/mnt/win.
Type
dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/win/linux.img
After a lot of waiting you'll have an image of your hard disk on the
server.
Then when you've blown your setup away, just pop in tom, mount the
server directory again and do this:
dd if=/mnt/win/linux.img of=/dev/hda
And she'll boot just like she always did.
Resident gurus please fill in the stuff I've missed or got wrong.. Other
things you might want to do: compress the image before you send it
across the network, use FTP to send the file over the network instead of
SMB.
Hope this helps,
Chuck
> Ryan McBride wrote:
> >
> > Sorry I must not have been clear enuf. I want to store the current setup as
> > im always tinkering and doing more damage to my box than i intended so i
> > just wanna say, BUGGER IT, RESTORE IMAGE. So i need imaging software that i
> > can use to image a drive over the network.
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