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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greetings once again!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Where to start..? Okay, here's what I
know: I don't understand what the process was to get necessary files
copied onto the hard drive for the whole IPAQ/SightSeer project, but I know it's
working on the one hard drive in the IPAQ. So, what I attempted to do was
to take an image of the drive so as to restore that to another hard drive.
Unfortunately, Symantec Ghost 8.0(Win32), with which I'm quite familiar doesn't
work on the restoration part even though it's supposed to support ext2 &
ext3. What I get is gobbledy-gook that doesn't work. Have also tried
G4L and DD, both of which also seem to image fine but can't restore to another
drive, even one the same size or larger. :(</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Taking another tack, I ran across this nifty System
Rescue CD located here: <A
href="http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page">http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page</A> which
amoung other things has a utility called GPartEd - pretty cool actually.
Throwing caution to the wind, I managed to make a copy of the partition from the
20 Gig HD onto a 30 Gig HD that I had sitting around; doing so was successful,
until I found I couldn't boot off the 30 Gig. Grr... Thinking back to my
DOS days, I remembered that partitions needed to be "Active" in order to boot,
so I checked the "Flag" for the drive and found it wasn't set to "Boot" -
checkmark on that - problem solved! Working 30 Gig HD. :)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Okay, so now I've got a duplicate which is a big
step forward!! Next item: how to get it on a smaller hard drive?
Well, I found that GPartEd allows me to shrink partitions so I found I could
shrink it down to around 572 meg and it would still work; going under about 540
meg(or roughly 512 multiplied out) gave me some "geometry errors", so I just
left it at about 572 meg. One would think I could then copy onto a smaller
HD? Wrong!! Have tried a 4 gig, 8 gig, 10 gig, 15 gig - nothing
works! Ideally, I'd like to place this sucker on a 2 Gig drive, as that
would allow me the greatest flexibility. Any ideas?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>By the way, I tried Acronis True Image (Echo
Workstation) Trial, but apparently the "fully operational" version which lasts
for 15 days doesn't bother mentioning that that's only inside of
Windows!! I'd created the bootable CD and it was ready to clone the
30 Gig onto a 4 Gig before reporting that issue. Grrrr.... There's
gonna be a heated note to Acronis about that one!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So I'm open to ideas. Anyone?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rich</FONT></DIV>
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