Does anyone know of any Applications similar to Symantec's Ghost and PC Anywhere? Thanks, Slacker

pcAnywhere: X will do most of that. If you need to use Windows, Tridia VNC (www.tridiavnc.com). Telnet and SSH are very nice. Printing over the connection is something of a problem, though. X wasn't designed to handle printers. Most linux distros come with telnet at least. Many of the newer ones come with OpenSSH. For X to use your display, you need a local X server. For linux, you're set. For Windows NT, check out CygWin (www.cygwin.com) and its Xfree86 server (that's about 200Mb install, though and you only get twm for a window manager 8P). If you want to pay for it, check out tucows.com for Windows based X servers. Changing displays in X: start X on your system! (your system) xhost (ip address of the host) telnet (ip address of the host) (host system) DISPLAY=(your ip address):0.0 export DISPLAY xterm & xterm will now appear on your display. Ghost: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=hd_image man dd for further info. I haven't tried this one.

AS far as the Ghost stuff, Get a copy of Powerquest Drive Image4!!! I will do about 50% compression on an ext2 partition. It is DOS based, but can be run from 2 floppy disks, or 1 floppy with a strange format like 1.65mb or was it 1.85mb. Bad news you have to install it under win95/98. Good news, VMWARE can do it. Pluss if you have CDRW it can image directly to it! Max 4x though.