Imaging a drive to CD

Michael mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu
Fri Jun 28 02:41:36 CDT 2002


Why not just use dd to copy the drive image and then write it to the cd? I
have s shell script I use that creates a blank disk image and fills it
with a copy of a directory tree. Making a disk image of an actual disk is
even easier. ;)

> Some drives come with a utility that mounts the drive as a write-able
> device, but I don't imagine they would work in the non-gui environment of
> Ghost.  What you would have to do is ghost the image to a hard drive
> (temporarily connected?) then burn the image to a CD.
>
> There is software out there though...  If IBM can put a whole multi-gig
> WinNT installation with apps on one bootable CD, why can't we?




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