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Linux-based disk imaging idea for Linux/Windows



Scott,

www.loaf.org

Bill

Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> Hello to all:
>
> I had an idea for a disk imaging program which could be free and work
> pretty well - use a Linux boot floppy with DOS/NTFS support and cp and/or
> zip included to boot a machine, mount the hard drive, establish a network
> share to a destination host, and run cp or zip (for compression) for a bit
> copy of the hard drive to the destination.
>
> Of course there would have to be limited support for NIC and possibly SCSI
> cards.
>
> If driver support became more expansive, there could be an ISO CD version
> for systems supporting CD-ROM based booting.
>
> Any takers for this project (or does it already exist?) :-)
>
> Scott
>
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