[H-GEN] Bootable Linux distro, partition backup/restore

[Hilton Travis]

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Hi Jason,

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 01:35, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> 
> Hilton Travis <Hilton at QuarkAV.com> writes:
> 
> > As Tony Nugent said, parted and partimage are
> > not very well polished.  They could do with a nice GUI, or at least a
> > much better interface, and better "integration" than they currently
> > have.
> 
> Ewww!  I would never trust my partitions to software that had a GUI.
> Any which way you cut it (curses, dialog, SVGAlib, X *shudder*) that's
> way too much code for such a critical tool to depend on.

I agree that die-hard Linux users may love the cryptic command-line
method of doing everything, but your Regular Joe sure doesn't.  What I'm
looking at is a package that a Regular Joe can use to copy, restore and
archive partitions - NTFS, FAT32 and Linux-based (at lease ext2/ext3). 
This is where Ghost, Drive Image and Partition Magic have the market - a
tool that you can use without needing a hex to dec calculator, and block
to track converter.  :)

-- 

Regards,

Hilton Travis                   Email: Hilton at QuarkAV.com


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