Les Mikesell wrote: > That's what clonezilla is all about. And it is released frequently on > both debian and ubuntu (the 'alternative' version) live bases so it has > pretty good hardware handling. I did look at clonezilla, briefly, but had to discard the idea, as my setup violated two of its rules: # The destination partition must be equal or larger than the source one. In my case the / partition on machine A is larger than the disk on machine B. # The partition to be imaged or cloned has to be unmounted. I can't stop machine A, as the partition table has been destroyed and it would not re-boot. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland