NT Workstation duplication

[robert at vps.co.za]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 06:21:35 +1100
> From: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu>
> Subject: RE: NT Workstation duplication
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Seth Vidal [mailto:skvidal at phy.duke.edu]
> > Subject: RE: NT Workstation duplication
> > 
> > do this same thing with lilo and a small linux partition 
> > instead of dos 
> > and you're life is even easier.
> > 
> > you can do all sorts of crazy things.
> > 
> > as well the access to raw devices (ie cp systemimage.file to 
> > /dev/hda1) is
> > very nice.
> 
> 
> O.K. this is getting WAY offtopic, but how well does a dd imagefile compress
> with gzip?
> 	Greg
> 

Very badly. You have to take a harddisk and do something like overwrite
the disk with zero's to make sure that all the previous information is not
there that will foul your compression ratio's.  

Another comment.. One of the strengths of Unix is that you are not
dependent on a single program to solve your problem. Any specific problem
can be solved in more that one way by combining a group of simple
utilities. It is the most difficult mindset change that Microsoft users
have to be used to and the most frustrating thing for a Unix user on a MS
System.

Robert Sandilands