bruce wrote:
i'm looking at doing a complete copy/restore of a drive. i want to copy the contents of a drive (or as much as possible) to a drive on another machine in the network. the 2nd machine on the 2nd network will be larger than the 1st drive. i want to then reformat/clean the 1st drive, and then copy the information from the 2nd drive back to the 1st machine. i'm looking at using partimage and wanted to know if anyone has any real experience using partimage. any thoughts/pointers would be helpful. i can't screw this up!!!
I am planning to do something similar. I wanted for try FC6 only my laptop, but didn't want to lose my current FC5 setup which is *almost* perfect. I have four partitions, root(hda2), boot(hda1), home(hda5) and data(hda6). Nothing would be changing in data, but I need to backup root, boot and home. I am thinking of booting with a knoppix CD and use DD to create images of hda1, hda2 and hda5. So if my laptop doesn't like FC6, I can write the images back on the partitions.
Any reasons why this won't work? -- Regards Vivek J. Patankar Registered Linux User #374218
