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

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Hilton Travis <Hilton at QuarkAV.com> writes:

> 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.

a) What's a Regular Joe doing messing around with partitions?  That's
   just asking for trouble, GUI or not.

b) I'm not arguing this point from aesthetics but simple utility.  The
   more code that is involved in the software, the more likely it is
   to break and the less likely it is to be available when you
   *really* need it.

> 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.  :)

And I don't think that hexidecimal to decimal converter is required to
use a command-line tool, either.
-- 
uck Wa!

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