Re: Cloning a SCO 5 computer

From: Bugblatter (nospam_at_spambucket.foo)
Date: 12/15/04

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    Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:01:35 +0000 (UTC)

    GenTLe wrote:
    > Ero seduto nel Korova Milk Bar, arrovellandomi il gulliver
    > per sapere cosa fare della serata, quando GenTLe mi ha disturbato scrivendo:
    >
    >
    >>[...]
    >
    >
    > Thanks all, maybe my english is not so good, and so I probably make a little
    > confusion.
    > I'm a "little&tender" (Microsoft) technician, and when I need to make a disk
    > image I simply install in the machine a second hard drive, make the bios
    > (without start Windows, for example inserting an empty floppy or a boot
    > floppy) recognize that HD, than use a DOS boot floppy disk with inside a
    > program like "Ghost" which work alone without affecting the OS.
    > Ghost simply take everything it finds on the source HD (or also you can
    > choose a single NTFS/FAT/FAT32 partition from the source drive) and make a
    > ..GHO compressed image file on the destination HD. You could use that image
    > file to recreate a cloned PC on another disk (Windows, especially 2K or XP,
    > doesn't care about the dimension of the new drive, and is affected only if
    > you change the controller system, for example it will not works if you start
    > from an IDE source drive and put the result of the decompressed image on a
    > SCSI drive).
    > I thought that there was something similar which could be used with SCO
    > partitions (I really don't know what kind of partition that system uses).
    > Something which work from a boot disk, with the SCO OS totally inactive. In
    > that mode, I'lle be sure to not touch the OS, becouse the *only* things I
    > know about it are how to insert the root account and the command "Init 0" to
    > turn off machine :-(
    >
    > Nothing similar?
    >
    > Thanks :-)
    > Alex
    >

    If you use Google you'll find reports from people who have successfully
    used Ghost to copy OpenServer disks - but you can only copy or restore
    to a drive of the same geometry. Ghost doesn't understanf OpenServer
    disk-divisions or filesystems so you can only copy the whole drive.

    One of the Supertars (Microlite, Cactus, ...) may be what you really need.

    If the system is important, the suggestion of hiring an experienced
    consultant is a good one.

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