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OT: Clonezilla

Well, i *finally* got the ISO courtesy of a someone pointing out Source Forge. Went thru a half a dozen GooGull proffered free burners. Most would not run; "not a 32-bit program" nevermind they were supposed to work in Win2K. Then there is the other collection of useless programs that have missing DLLs. Finally got one, burned a DVD disk with it. The file clonezilla-live-20121217-quantal.iso became 20121217-quantal on the disk which does NOT auto-boot. Later, i will take the net step and see.... ...if it does absolutely nothing but sit there, that will be better than Acronis which scrambles drive letters, re-tag partition attributes, and re-orders entries in FAT directories (IE: they do not know the meaning of "copy" or "clone").

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Robert Baer
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Just a shareware disc burner will record the iso but you have to tell the burner app mthat you want to make an iso, system disk, bootable, etc. Linux is real easy for this but any burner that'll burn a file should have a burn iso ability.

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dave

"should have" about as bad as Mister Justin Case...

Anyway...using the created disk::

Holy sh**!!!!!!!!!!! End result was second HD was a _correct_ copy, not even ONE partition mis-tagged and all lengths CORRECT! Not only that, it was FAST!

Pit-nicker: maybe 15 errors flashed by on screen at boot; _hundreds_ of errors after selecting zero = = turn off.

Just for fishy reasons, could i copy that screen text to a floppy?

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Robert Baer

I'd suggest Parted Magic. It has a couple of cloning programs on it. I prefer Ghost for Linux.

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miso

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Most likely it would be a two step process. Capture the errors and other output to a file is something like ">&2> "; then copy file to whatever you want. Standard Unix/Linux file redirection.

?-)

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josephkk

Thought of a few "gotchas": 1) no way to start the re-direction or pipe stream as the program starts by booting via the BIOS at power on;

2) if result was more than 1.44 Megs, the floppy would be full and inability to continue writing may freeze system.
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Robert Baer

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1) It does run from a functional Linux base but since it cannot know what to copy from nor where to copy to at boot time it must boot to an environment for user interaction to learn that. At that point you can setup saving error messages where you want. 2) The save location does not have to be a floppy, it will be a file anywhere on the current directory tree. Size limited by available free space only.

?-)

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josephkk

Since i boot from the CD, i could not save to it even if there was a magic way to port the (screen) text stream. Comments about (some) error messages going to something like /usr/log/?? not useful as they do not exist anywhere at shutdown. In any event.. The copy does not completely boot..the menu for selecting Win98SE or Win2K pops up, but selecting Win98SE dies - does not find any boot record. BUT as far as i can tell, that partition (#1,C:) is an exact copy of the original. Same files: normal, system, hidden; sizes and dates and quantity and names all the same. WTF? How can this be fixed?

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Robert Baer

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