Send in the Clones

[utu]

Greetings from a clone.

I ended up using Klaus2008's method, and that works just fine.
I did the cut and paste parts in Win7 with no ill effects,
at least none I've observed so far.
I also now have a Pearl Harbor .img file, albeit on ntfs premises.
Editing a Fat32 file on an ntfs system for use with Linux seemed
to me a juggle unlikely to come to a good end. But it did.

I struggled to get the reserved space size right, since I'd
forgotten a minor edit of the non-image part of the equation.
As a consequence, my clone didn't at first have enough room to
hold the original's .img
I suspect if the clone had more than enough room, that also might
have worked, but I've not proved this.

Thanks Klaus2008.

[krishna.murphy]

Greetings from a clone.

I ended up using Klaus2008's method, and that works just fine.
I did the cut and paste parts in Win7 with no ill effects,
at least none I've observed so far.
I also now have a Pearl Harbor .img file, albeit on ntfs premises.
Editing a Fat32 file on an ntfs system for use with Linux seemed
to me a juggle unlikely to come to a good end. But it did.

In essence, a file (in and of itself) is not tied to any particular filesystem - it's just stored under that filesystem (NTFS, FAT32, etc.) So copying files from one to another is perfectly kosher, albeit reputedly risky when the destination type is NTFS. But it works (mostly), as you showed.

I struggled to get the reserved space size right, since I'd
forgotten a minor edit of the non-image part of the equation.
As a consequence, my clone didn't at first have enough room to
hold the original's .img
I suspect if the clone had more than enough room, that also might
have worked, but I've not proved this.

Thanks Klaus2008.

Are you saying that you took too much room with the KNOPPIX file within the KNOPPIX folder? Or was the FAT partition itself too small? Just curious...

Ciao!
Krishna