From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tds-solutions.net (tds-solutions.net [69.164.206.65]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81DF31EF6BC for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 14:33:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host-184-166-5-13.gdj-co.client.bresnan.net [184.166.5.13]) (Authenticated sender: tyler) by tds-solutions.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 69C56A02E for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 12:34:00 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <51A2556F.9040800@tysdomain.com> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 12:33:19 -0600 From: "Littlefield, Tyler" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Accessible image backup and restore program? References: <51A242CF.80406@insightbb.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 18:33:23 -0000 Jason: There is not an accessible windows boot cd as far as I'm aware. What you could do though is just dd your partitions and pipe t hat through to bzip2. It's moderately slow, but you could store it on a nas/passport drive/etc and be set. HTH, On 5/26/2013 12:23 PM, Kirk Reiser wrote: > I can't answer your question about recovery images for Windows, but > grml is a good general purpose rescue image. It will handle either > software synths such as espeakup which is part of the system or serial > synths. > > Check it out at www.grml.org. > > On Sun, 26 May 2013, Jayson Smith wrote: > >> A bit off-topic here, but somewhat related to Linux. >> >> For several years, I've been using Image for Windows/Linux as my >> Windows backup/restore solution. I liked it because, in case of total >> boot drive failure where the system was completely unbootable, I >> could boot up Image for Linux which includes Speakup, use my DECtalk >> Express, and restore. Now, though, I've upgraded to Windows 7, and my >> computer has exactly zero serial ports. So I can't use my old boot CD >> any more, unless it would work with a USB to serial convertor. >> >> What do you recommend for a bootable, accessible backup and restore >> solution? Does whatever you recommend use software speech? I don't >> assume anyone's come up with an accessible bootable Windows CD? Does >> such a bootable CD work with USB sound devices? Also, in all our >> computers, there's an internal sound card we're not actively using in >> Windows. Would any Linux CD try to use that first? >> Thanks for any thoughts! >> Jayson >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > -- Take care, Ty http://tds-solutions.net The aspen project: a barebones light-weight mud engine: http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.