AW: AW: AW: AW: [ltp] new computer

[Meidinger Chris]

> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 09:37 +0100, Meidinger Chris wrote:
> > Morpheus: my preferred way to do things is to image the 
> complete hard 
> > drive BEFORE i actually start the computer natively.  Sometimes the 
> > restore
> 
> That's good advice...that way you can confidently remove the 
> WinXP partition if you want to.
> BTW, is the restore partition a proprietary format?  Do you 
> find that your drive image program handles all the partitions 
> without problems?
> What image program do you use?

The restore partition is fat32. Ghost works fine, but to be honest i dd the
partitions and netcat them to another machine. 'dd if=dev/hda bs=16384 | nc
${IP_ADDR} ${PORT}' ... other side 'nc -l ${PORT} > /home/user/hda.img &&
gzip /home/user/hda-img' 

Works like a charm.

Cheers,

Chris