Boot disk creation

[Mike McCarty]

Mike McCarty wrote:

I know it's bad form to reply to one's own message, but
hey, rules are made to be broken, right?

> BTW, I have been very impressed by the Windows XP
> recovery. It works pretty well. Unfortunately, it
> is not well documented. Options have scary names,
> don't tell you what they'll do, and put up scary
> warnings. Then they go do what is needed after all.
>
What hope is there that the Fedora team will put together something
which can recreate the current system after disaster? I mean something
like the Windows recovery? You start up the program, and it creates
a set of 11 or 20 or however many CDs/DVDs or whatever are necessary
to take your machine from empty (like head-crashed discs which have
been replaced) to exactly like it was before the disaster? With the
possible exception that the partition sizes may have changed (presume
that fdisk has been run to partition the discs).

Or maybe (like I'd like to do) I decide to take some more disc away
from Windows XP and give it to Linux. I goofed on the original
install, and gave Linux less than I had intended. I have an 80GB
HD partitioned 4 ways: Windows XP recovery, Windows XP,
and in Extended Volumes, Linux Boot, and Linux OS.
I  had intended to give Linux about 40GB or so, but wound up with
Linux only has 7GB. I added an external USB for more storage,
but wish I had more elbow room for /home. I'd like to run
partition magic or something like that, and then recover Linux
into the larger partitions.

As an inducement, I might even be willing to give Linux 30GB

:-)

Mike

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