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Generally, I notice if I install MSXP and Suse, and install Ubuntu last- then Ubuntu will set it up so I can boot to all three.

So saikee, ever thought about trying to break your 145 boot record?

I'm sure there's no Guinness World Records category for this, but I would be willing to bet that so far you are in the lead. :)

- bzip2 gives a LOT better compression if there are huge amounts of zeros and/or ones in a row.
- gzip sometimes (very rarely) gives better compression.
- In my typical experience, bzip2 takes...

i845, You could compress the partition image with a command similar to this:
cat /dev/hda | bzip2 -c > image.bz2

Very cool. Thanks saikee.

Good point you bring up there. I've had proprietary($$$) software fail on me several, several times before. Especially a program that rhymes with Martition Pagic. With Liberated Software that is...

dd can be made to work as effectively as any other "full backup suite". You just need something like mingw, so that you can issue this command:
cat /dev/zero > zero; rm zero

That will make all...

Yes, you MUST reboot here. If you don't, you risk serious damage to your drive.
The only way you can get around rebooting is by running program partprobe.

Partprobe works great, and I have used...