Cloning

[Brown, Steve]

I clone Thinkpads all the time with G4L.  I haven't used G4U but from what I gather it's what G4L is based on (either the code or the concept - not sure).

You can clone everything including the recovery partition no problem.

The only snag I've run into doing this is with some of the older systems that shipped with a 15 head hard disk.  You can clone them all you want but it has to be to another 15 head disk.  Same limitation applies regardless of the cloning software.

I usually use an ftp server to store and retrieve the images but I've done it direct to the new drive via a USB enclosure also.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Richard Rice
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 11:09 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Cloning


Any ideas on cloning an IBM T60 Thinkpad with G4U (Ghost for You)? The
T60 comes with a recovery partition. First I killdisk the drive,
re-install Windows XP. Then I want to capture an image with G4U so that
I can clone other T60 machines. Is this possible with G4U? My present
imaging software, Imagecaster, fails.

Richard

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