FFS Man !!! Which part don't you understand about WLUG not wanting to use Ghost or Partition Magic ? Licensing costs and issues are not the only reason behind this... I personally wouldn't paint myself into a corner backing up peoples computers, there are a lot of issues, what if the back up failed ? What is the content I'm backing up ? What about disposing of the data once finished ? Believe it or not, there are a lot of legal issues there... The other issues (which I thought was very obvious) is that here we are promoting a suite of software ranging from the OS right up to end user applications that is for starters free, open source, an alternative to Microsoft, and we are going to use what? to partition hard drive space, and we are going to use what? to backup the data. Hey if you want to use at home (or whatever) is fine to me, but what you are suggesting here is as appropriate as suggesting that you consume alcohol at church... Personally, Hard Drives are not expensive, people should consider installing a new hard drive in their machine and install the going distro. If they are newbies, things *will* go wrong somewhere along the line, and at least they can reformat the drive and start all over again without losing any sleep.

-----Original Message----- From: DrWho? [mailto:x_files_(a)ihug.co.nz] Sent: Sunday, 18 April 2004 19:20 To: Waikato Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [wlug] Dual Booting for the install-fest [long]

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I think the idea of asking Symantic if they would do some sort of sponsorship with Ghost would be a great idea.

Great. Where can I download the source code?

You cant, but sometimes you need to spend a bit of money to get the job done <grin> and if a commercial pay for it product will do the job a hell of allot better than any free product then so be it <grin>.

Also if symantic would be willing to give away some copies then take it!! it will do a good job, better than any oss solutions <grin>

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