[GLLUG] OT: Ghost 7.5 and domain

[Matt Graham]

On Thursday 06 June 2002 17:14, after a long battle with technology, 
Melson, Paul wrote:
> Drive-to-drive with dd works flawlessly regardless of the partition
> type.  It's a sector by sector copy, so it's got some of the same
> issues as the old Drive Image Pro software with regard to
> smaller-to-larger drive copies, but otherwise it's seamless.  (Using
> `dd` with your CD's will make burnable .iso files, too.)

However, dd is not a good solution unless you have a filesystem that 
can't be effectively written under Linux (NTFS, cough.)  If you have 
FAT32, ReiserFS, ext2, or ext3 partitions to back up, the best solution 
is probably "partimage".  It works similarly to Ghost, but it's Free, 
and has a friendlier (ncurses-based) interface than dd.  partimage also 
can be run from the command line.

WRT the original question about 'DozeNT SIDs, I remember someone saying 
something about a small utility called "sidchanger".  Don't remember if 
it was DOS-based or what.  Ah, Googling comes up with this:

http://silentdragon.com/download/SIDChanger/

The NEWSID.EXE thing is Free, unlike "sidchanger" and does basically the 
same thing.  I suppose you could put it on the disk image source along 
with "C:\FIRSTRUN.TXT" and have AUTOEXEC.BAT or whatever check for the 
existence of C:\FIRSTRUN.TXT and if it exists, delete it, then run 
NEWSID.EXE, and things should be cool.  HTH,

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