[PLUG] Knoppix command line disk ghosting

Chris Genly chgenly at verizon.net
Wed Jan 12 17:34:18 UTC 2005


Are you suggesting it is a problem to backup my system?

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 20:08 -0800, Robert Kopp wrote:
> --- Chris Genly <chgenly at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> > I reinstall windows 98 on my sons system every 9
> > months or so.  He uses
> > it to play games, listen to music, instant message,
> > edit documents and
> > browse the web.  It takes about a day of elapsed
> > time to get the system
> > back up to speed: installing win98, and all the
> > necessary drivers,
> > setting up the printer, anti-virus program, open
> > office, mozilla, yahoo
> > messenger, etc.  So I was motivated to looking in to
> > getting an image of
> > his disk.  
> > 
> It might be a good idea to consult Microsoft's EULA
> before deciding whether to describe such procedures in
> a public forum. It would probably be possible to
> produce a version of Windows XP that would run from a
> CD and store user data on a microdrive, as Knoppix
> does. But Bill Gates might frown on this.
> 
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