[CLUE-Tech] Linux laptop

[Matt Gushee]

Roger Frank writes:

 > Now that it works - and it did take some work to get it going - 
 > I wish there were a way to do a partition dump thru the serial port.
 > I know partimage is excellent, but there is no second drive or
 > second partition.  I'd like to be able to get the exact image of
 > what's on the disk onto another machine as an image, and I'd
 > like to be able to restore it easily.  I guess it's the Linux
 > equivalent of Ghost that I'm looking for.  Any ideas?

Ghost supports ext2 partitions, and you can run it from a boot
disk. Without the Windows GUI tools, it may take some patience to put
together a boot disk with the appropriate drivers, but you should be
able to do it.

Matt