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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yeah, now I'm replying to my own post because I
have something to add that I don't completely understand.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For some reason, I began to think that there might
be some hidden boot block or something that might not get included in the
partition copying, so I figured what the heck?! Why not try out a crazy
idea - nothing else has worked! So what I did was I used the original
Sight Seer CD to install Geexbox 1.0 onto the 4 gig hard drive, partitioning it
to just 600 meg, and let it do the install. Did a test boot - booted as
expected(without the auto-play). Then I took the hd out and slaved it to
the 30 Gig hd in another system, ran the GPartEd util and copied the partition
from the 30 Gig onto the 4 gig hd (WITHOUT first deleting the existing 600meg
partition on the 4 gig hd). Everything copied fine, and I put the 4 Gig hd
in the IPAQ -- and viola! it's booting and running perfectly. Question now
is: why?!? :/</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rich</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=networkman@triton.net href="mailto:networkman@triton.net">Rich
Nagel</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=grlug@grlug.org
href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 14, 2008 7:09
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [GRLUG] Question of how to copy
20 Gig HD to smaller HD?</DIV>
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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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