Setup problems on single disk PC

I am trying to install onto my Linux partition. I have XP and Mepis on drive hda. XP on hda1 and Mepis on hda3 with hda2 being swap. I don't have much space on the XP partition, only 470 meg. On the Linux partition I have over 21 gig. When running imagetool, it selects /dev/hda as the source and /home/harry/disk1.hdd as the destination.

While running, it quits telling me I am out of space. Is this on the XP partition? If so, how much space is needed? I can always run QTParted and get more.

 

It means you lack of space on destination partition - where you capturing your image to.

 

Surely 21 gig is enough! Or did I set something up wrong in Parallels with the virtual disk? I set it up for a little more than 5 gig before running imagetool. Was this wrong?


Harry G

 

Sorry - I mis-read your initial message. We will try to reproduce this in our labs.

 

I guess I will let you slide!

Thanks for the fast response. I need to get your program cranking, or I will have to switch over to XP in my office (shudder)


Harry G

 

OK - understand know. ImageTool is designed now to capture whole physical disk - not selected partition. So you are trying to make image of your all disk and fit it as file on one of the partition. It won't fit ofcourse.

 

So I need to get one from a CD instead?

So the Windows partition has to be on its own drive?


Harry G

 

Using ImageTool you are able to capture entire physical hard disk with all partitions included. As a distination you can use 2-nd disk, network share or DVD-R (if size is enough).

 

So after loading it on the DVD, it will run from there, and write to the hda3? I am not sure I understand.

 

ImageTool is trying to grab your whole disk - 21+ Gigs. It can't grab just one partition from it (/dev/hda in your case). It is limitation for current version.

In next major version it will support grabbing partitions as well.