New twist on drive copy - Win - Win using Linux to stage?

[Jonathan Hale]

Or, another possibility, there is now an open source utility for Linux
called Partition Image which is similar to Norton Ghost or PowerQuest Drive
Image for Windows...  It can be found at:
http://www.partimage.org/
I haven't tried it yet, but it was one of the programs featured in the July
issue of LINUXformat magazine, and they seemed to be well enough impressed
by it...

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Densmore <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>
To: <mohoel at bigfoot.com>; <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 9:09 AM
Subject: RE: New twist on drive copy - Win - Win using Linux to stage?

> If you want to be able to boot you would have to copy the file system as
> a whole. The dd function might work for that. There might also be some
> relative of mkfs for that. I seem to remember something about that, but
> can put my finger on it right now. I don't know that you can take a
> 1.3GB image and stick it on a 3GB disk, and make it bootable as a
> complete system. Anyway, I think dd is your best bet. it should copy
> sector by sector.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Hoelschers [mailto:mohoel at telocity.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:12 PM
> > To: kclug at kclug.org
> > Subject: New twist on drive copy - Win - Win using Linux to stage?
> >
> >
> > Got another question.  Comes from being cheap, I guess.
> >
> > Anyway, this is for my daughter's laptop....  Here's my
> > problem.  I have
> > a 3 gig drive (empty) to replace a 1.3 gig drive (working Win98 load),
> > but like I say, they are for a laptop, and I only have one adapter to
> > plug a laptop drive into a desktop IDE cable.
> >
> > However, I've got a nice, big disk in my Dual Boot
> > Linux/Win98 box, so I
> > was thinking about;
> >
> > 1. Use available space on my desktop drive (/dev/hda)
> >   {a directory in the FAT32 partition housing Windows?
> >   {a directory under Linux ext2?
> >   {make a seperate partition and format for Dos?
> > 2. Copy the 1.3 gig laptop drive to this space
> >   {which method would be best for Windows data? DD, TAR, CPIO?
> > 3. Swap the 1.3 for the 3.0
> > 4. Copy that space to the 3.0 gig drive
> >
> > Any chance in the world to do this and have the 3 gig drive
> > come out as
> > a bootable Windows 98 drive?
> >
> > Thanks for any help....
> > Chris.