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Using True Image with Linux Home partitions?

BlueWeasel

BlueWeasel

Lifer
I'm dual booting XP and Linux on my laptop using LILO as my bootloader. I currently have PCLinuxOS installed and really like it. However, since I'm always searching for new distros to try out, I'd like to make a image of my Linux partition so I can quickly restore it if necessary.

True Image v8 can see my Linux EXT2 partition and I made a full image of this partition.

Assume I try installing a new distro and I don't like it. I then boot from the True Image boot CD and restore the PCLinuxOS to the EXT2 partition.

Is it that simple, or will LILO be screwed up? The size and layout of the partitions won't change at all, so I'm think it will be fine.

Am I missing anything?
 
I haven't tried it with Linux, but that should be the way it works.

The only problem I can forsee is if you have Lilo or Grub installed on a seperate partition
(such as the Windows partition). When you restore the old Linux, the boot conf may
not be written to recognize the old Ext2fs partition anymore to find and load the kernel.

As long as you do not recreate the partitions as part of the install, then LILO should
map exactly the same for each distro.

 
Keep a knoppix cd handy. If it doesn't work, mount the drives, chroot to the root partition of the drive, and run lilo. I _think_ that should fix it. 😉
 
I would guess that LILO would get screwed up, because it uses block numbers to find it's config file instead of reading filesystems correctly like GRUB.

Personally I would use VMWare, it's a lot less hassle.
 
Use TI's Clone function - it could care less about the operating system. Makes an exact duplicate of the drive on another drive including all partitions, etc.
 
Use TI's Clone function - it could care less about the operating system. Makes an exact duplicate of the drive on another drive including all partitions, etc.
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And you get an image the size of the entire partition instead of just the data.
 
No - you do not get an image. You get a duplicate drive that does not have to be restored.
 
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