Next we have to gather some information about our computer before we can make our image. Once SystemRescueCD is completely loaded you’ll be presented with the following prompt: You could also just let the timer run out and have the same effect. Eventually you’ll be presented with the following prompt to choose a language option: You’ll see a lot of text scroll by as the CD detects hardware and loads services. In general we should be able to simply hit Enter and have things work. Once the disc loads you should be presented with something like this: It’s now time to start the computer using that CD. So we’ve got the computer we’re going to use as the source for our image, we have a device to store the image on, and our SystemRescueCD. Now that all our materials are ready to go we can get down to business. You can use a network share instead or make use of Partimage’s built-in server functionality, but we won’t cover those here today. Our image storage medium is going to be a 50 gigabyte hard drive we’ll connect to each computer as we save and restore the image. Our eventual destination will need to have a total capacity of 25 gigabytes, which we have covered. Thus, anything we use to store the image as it’s created will need to have at least 4 gigabytes free. Our source computer is running Windows XP and consumes a little over 4 gigabytes of its 25 GB capacity. Well, to be precise what’s important is the amount of used space compared with total storage capacity. Of these factors, the hard drive capacity is most important as it will determine what we can use for #3 above. Both have 25 gigabyte hard drives, the same processor, the same underlying chipsets, and so on. In this example our source and destination computers are different devices although both have exactly the same hardware.
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