Das Werkstatt

Chapter one...

searching for a tool to migrate my OS installations to another disk (including windows...) I stumbled over the partimage project. (www.partimage.org)
There, you get a source code image for installation, with compilation instructions.
Issue: requires Libbz2 v1.0 or higher, that I was unable to install with apt-get. apt-get tells me that my version is current. So, end of compilation adventure

Alternative:

Now I have partimage commandline tool.

Chapter2 will maybe shed a little light how to use it...

Cheers,

Tonmaus

Very interesting! I personally do not have any experience with tools like that. Then again, we learned very early how to 'manually' move a installation

Of course its better if theres a good tool for that, now.

Corrections:

Partimage is a semi-gui tool for simple use. Imaging a partition is self-explaining. I am afraid I have to add ntfs support now, and I also have to face to migrate my kubuntu either to investigate how to copy the /etc stuff, or how to use the rescue CD.

So, chapter2 will be about that...

Sounds even more interesting! Good that you did not choose the easy way (reinstall), but rather do it the hard way, and thus, give us a lot of information on topics we did not touch yet

Good luck, keep us up2date!

intermediate step: I am giving up for the moment for two reasons: Issues mounting various partintions of the external drives.
- issues with ext3 partition (?)
- issues with ntfs partitions (->ntfs-3g issues ->probably fuse version issues ->compiling fuse 2.6.3 doesn't work ->script doesn't laclise kernel headers path and advise I have found was cryptic to me)

When this is solved I can go on.

/Tonmaus