[GLLUG] Dual Boot Imaging with partimage?

[Mike Rambo]

Charles Ulrich wrote:
> On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:03, Benjamin Cathey wrote:
>> I have an XP/Linux dual boot system (using grub.)
>>
>> I want to image the HDD and I'm not sure what the best way to go about it
>> is.  I have heard partimage is 'sort of' ntfs compatible.  Then, thought,
>> you need to backup the partition table as well.  I have also head the
>> Norton Ghost can read ext3 but that costs money.
>>
>> Any ideas - opinions?
> 
> We've had good luck with this:
> 
> http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm
> 
> It's roughly equivalent to Ghost, but I don't think it does Linux. Back in the 
> day, I would have suggested dump/restore for moving Linux partitions, but 
> newer filesystems aren't well supported with those utilities if at all.
> 

There's g4u and g4l too. g4l definitely supports newer hardware than g4u 
last I checked (about 6 weeks ago). g4u uses a bsd kernel (netbsd I 
think) and is IMO much easier to use. g4l uses a Linux kernel and works 
on newer hardware but some folks have beefs with it's origins. There was 
probably some plagiarism from g4u back at it's start but the folks that 
have taken over the project more recently seem to have dealt with it.

Both of these use dd, gzip and ftp to make an image of the drive (g4l 
offers more than one style compression). ntfs is specically supported 
with g4l and generally not a problem with either although you sometime 
need a partition utility to fix errors on occasion (when you see an NT 
loader error). If we don't have drives that are exactly identical our 
usual practice is to make the images use a partition smaller than the 
drive they will actually go on which makes it easier to fix the NT 
loader error.

Someone mentioned problems with recent HP's. Turning off advanced APIC 
in bios has helped us imaging recent HP's (dx5150 - AMD processors).


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