My Experience with SystemRescueCd

[BobbytheBrain]

Computers
1. Desktop: 6-month old Dell 4600 with 1-80GB(10GB filled) and
1-60GB(20GB filled) HD
2. New Laptop: Dell 600m with 60GB HD

Connection: 10/100 ethernet router/switch

Goal:
Repartition a new laptop since Dell creates a hidden one. Then clone
the desktop onto the laptop via ethernet. I already have commercial
products, but I wanted to test this freebie solution.

Experience: First of all, the CD does not even boot to a gui.
Instead, screens of colored text appeared. Okay, so I find the
command for QtParted. It looks like Partition Magic and so I run tell
it to delete all partitions except the main one and then resize
everything. Once it competed the task, it rebooted. Sounds simple
and easy. Unfortunately, Windows did not boot. I forgot the error
message, but it said there was some hardware problem. On Windows 98,
maybe I could have done the fix MBR thingy, but on XP, that does not
work, especially with no floppy on this notebook. Since this is a new
laptop, I could just start over, but QtParted certainly did not
impressive me.

After starting over with a fresh installation of Windows, I tried this
Ghost clone named Partimage. Who said this was a clone of anything?
This looks like a 10-yr old DOS program! People better know linux
otherwise they will say, "What the heck is this?"

ide/host/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
ide/host/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
ide/host/bus0/target0/lun0/part3

What I attempted to do was clone my boot drive(10GB of data) onto my
slave drive. After Partimage started, it gave me an error message of
not enough disk space. Funny, a commercial program was able to create
a 2GB image of that same data. Frankly, I just gave up on this
application as well.

 

[REM]

BobbytheBrain <[email protected]> wrote:

Goal:
Repartition a new laptop since Dell creates a hidden one. Then clone
the desktop onto the laptop via ethernet. I already have commercial
products, but I wanted to test this freebie solution.

Experience: First of all, the CD does not even boot to a gui.
Instead, screens of colored text appeared. Okay, so I find the
command for QtParted. It looks like Partition Magic and so I run tell
it to delete all partitions except the main one and then resize
everything. Once it competed the task, it rebooted. Sounds simple
and easy. Unfortunately, Windows did not boot. I forgot the error
message, but it said there was some hardware problem. On Windows 98,
maybe I could have done the fix MBR thingy, but on XP, that does not
work, especially with no floppy on this notebook. Since this is a new
laptop, I could just start over, but QtParted certainly did not
impressive me.

After starting over with a fresh installation of Windows, I tried this
Ghost clone named Partimage. Who said this was a clone of anything?
This looks like a 10-yr old DOS program! People better know linux
otherwise they will say, "What the heck is this?"

What I attempted to do was clone my boot drive(10GB of data) onto my
slave drive. After Partimage started, it gave me an error message of
not enough disk space. Funny, a commercial program was able to create
a 2GB image of that same data. Frankly, I just gave up on this
application as well.

Try DrvImagerXP: (clone or image XP partition)

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/2/13-2-39.shtml

And these two projects will produce a slim bootable XP CD (GUI):

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

http://www.windowsubcd.com/