I have a 6GB hard-disk, which is partitioned 4gb windows, 2gb linux. My system has crashed a couple of times lately, wiping out my linux partition (Windows seems to like to hose it, something screwy with the BIOS Parameter Block I think. Anyhow, I have a CD-burner (which is connected via USB, and thus must be used from Windows), and I want to burn a set of disks that I can boot linux with, and restore an exact image of my drive. I have no need to be able to access individual files, since I will do seperate file backups. I just want a quick way of getting my system back exactly as it is without reinstalling from scratch. I have never used it, but I understand 'dd' has some of these features. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Also, with only 6GB (of which a significant portion is full), I'd ideally like to create a compressed image of my drive, since otherwise I don't have enough space to do this. And since this is a laptop, I am extremely limited in my choices for additional hardware (like a seperate drive for linux to solve this problem altogether)
Thanks, .Geoff
