Am So, den 01.08.2004 schrieb Dexter Ang um 17:07: > > Just because of interest: what does g4u do different than dd? > > Well it all comes down to the fact that I'm not that familiar with dd > when it comes to cloning harddrives. It's probably as easy as dd > if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb. In fact, g4u uses dd as well. And it compresses > and puts the image on an ftp server. And it uses a bootable NetBSD disk > (either floppies or a CD iso). Except I don't have to see all this, and > have to type all the commands (or make a script for it). > > So it all basically is because I'm lazy. And the fact that I don't have > to teach those who were helping me. They just boot of a CD, and then > type slurpdisk server image.gz. > > It's just fun to use some new tool =) > > dex Thanks Dexter for explanation and your point of view. g4u sounds not that bad and it is free software http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ I think I'll test it if I have an opportunity. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3.ad.umlsmp Serendipity 17:58:57 up 23:23, 9 users, 0.87, 1.04, 1.14
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