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Re: [PLUG] Finally cloned my drive using g4l
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Eric wrote:
> Mike Leone wrote:
>> I finally cloned my drive using g4l (thanks to whoever suggested that).
>> g4l is Ghost 4 Linux (not the Symantec Ghost). They have a bootable ISO
>> you can download. I did that, and it all Just Worked perfectly the first
>> time.
>>
>> Now, I cloned a 17G drive to a 60G drive, so I had a lot of free space.
>> But Partition Magic took care of that quick enough. I left the boot
>> partition alone at 23M, but spread the rest out appropriately.
>>
>> Thanks for the help, everyone.
>
>
> Mike:
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. How long did it take to make the clone?
About .... 30-40 minutes, I think. I started it, and went and watched TV
for a while. :-)
> 2. I thought Partition Magic had to be installed on a Windows system before it
> could run... did you have a Windows partition or does Partition Magic run from a
> boot disk?
PM lets you make boot disks. Yes, it must be installed on a Windows
system (I have one of those, too), but then, one of the options is to
create 2 diskettes - one boots, the other is the PM program itself. And
the disks can be used to resize Windows or Linux systems. Perhaps
others, too - I've only ever tried it with Windows (all up until Vista)
and Linux systems - it knows ext2/ext3/reiserfs, probably others.
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