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Author: James Lee Bell
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Subject: Backup Image of My drive
um, not to offend with this question, but you do realize that you don't
have to have the credit card sized media to get that distro? It dumps
just fine to a regular cdr, which is how I have it.

jtannenba wrote:

>Thanks Tom and George..
>
>Joe
>--- Tom Achtenberg <> wrote:
>
>>I have seen the credit card or sometimes called
>>business card blank CD's at
>>Fry's. About $10-15 for a 10 pack.
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "jtannenba" <>
>>To: <>
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 2:49 PM
>>Subject: RE: Backup Image of My drive
>>
>>
>>Can you buy the credit card media at Fry's or an
>>office supply place? Cost compared to reg CD-r?
>>Can they be burned in for example a Sony CRX160E?
>>Joe
>>--- Joel Dudley <>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Sorry,
>>> It is basicly a small linux distro on a bootable
>>>CD image with all sorts
>>>of usefull tools. Here is the URL:
>>>
>>>http://lbt.linuxcare.com/index.epl
>>>
>>>It has saved my butt more than once.
>>>
>>>- Joel
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: jtannenba [mailto:jtannenba@yahoo.com]
>>>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:53 PM
>>>To:
>>>Subject: RE: Backup Image of My drive
>>>
>>>
>>>Expand on "linuxcare rescue disk?"
>>>Joe
>>>--- Joel Dudley <>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Boot from a floppy or something like the
>>>>
>>linuxcare
>>
>>>>rescue disk and use dd to
>>>>create an image. Obviously you need somewhere to
>>>>store the image so an extra
>>>>HDD in the case would be easier that getting
>>>>
>>CD-R
>>
>>>>drivers to work from a
>>>>boot disk (but the linuxcare rescue disk is an
>>>>amazing little tool so I
>>>>would see what utilities it offers). You could
>>>>
>>>also
>>>
>>>>send the datastream over
>>>>a network.
>>>>
>>>>- Joel
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Benjamin Bostow
>>>>[mailto:ben@viatornetworks.com]
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 12:21 PM
>>>>To:
>>>>Subject: Backup Image of My drive
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I am trying to find a way to make an image of my
>>>>computer and burn it onto a
>>>>CD, like Norton Ghost. I am running RedHat 6.2
>>>>
>>but
>>
>>>>am moving to 7.2. If
>>>>anyone could give me a program or a way to do
>>>>
>>>this,
>>>
>>>>I would appreciate it.
>>>>On one of my systems I don't have X installed so
>>>>
>>>if
>>>
>>>>there is a way without X
>>>>that would be helpful too.
>>>>
>>>>Benjamin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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