[geeks] image rescue for freeBSD machine

[John Francini]

Have you heard of g4u -- "ghost for unix"?  It's a very small 
NetBSD-based bootable program that might do what you want.

<http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/>

j


At 16:39 -0400 6/11/07, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>I want to be able to install an image of a FreeBSD filesystem on a
>small computer.
>
>Basically just an image copy, no install, just transfer the image and
>when the machine reboots, it loads from the drive where the image
>was written.
>
>I wanted to use a USB flash drive for this.  Basically I want to boot
>from it, and be able to pick and image and say "write this image to this
>drive".
>
>The root drives of the systems in question are only 512MB, so a USB
>drive is plenty large enough.
>
>Has anyone else done this before?
>
>I figure something kind of like Ghost, but on a flash drive, is what I
>need.
>
>Thanks for any information or pointers.
>
>
>
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