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# The PartImage Handbook

## François Dupoux `fdupoux@partimage.org`

$Revision: 1.19 $ for version 0.6.2, Dec 12th, 2001

This Handbook describes PartImage Version 0.6.2.

## 1. Introduction

- 1.1 What is new in documentation?
- 1.2 What is it?
- 1.3 Changes

## 2. Installation

- 2.1 How to obtain PartImage
- 2.2 Requirements
- 2.3 Compilation and installation

## 3. Usage

- 3.1 How to save a partition into an image file
- 3.2 How to restore a partition from an image file
- 3.3 What compression level to use ?
- 3.4 The splitting option
- 3.5 The network support
- 3.6 Using PartitionImage with Apple iMac
- 3.7 Making a backup of the partition table

## 4. The BOOT/ROOT disks and Eltorito bootable CD-Rom

- 4.1 Why these disks ?
- 4.2 How to create these disks ?
- 4.3 How to use these disks ?
- 4.4 How to create an eltorito bootable CD-Rom ?

## 5. Partition Image Internals

- 5.1 Note about the NTFS support
- 5.2 The 2 GB file limitation
- 5.3 How are the partitions read/written
- 5.4 Developers information

## 6. Developers informations

- 6.1 Creating images of BOOT/ROOT/Eltorito
- 6.2 Testing the file system support of partimage

## 7. Contributing to the project

- 7.1 Writing the documentation
- 7.2 Translators (from English)
- 7.3 Beta-testers
- 7.4 Writing C++ code

## 8. Copyright PartImage Copyright 2000, 2001, 2002 François Dupoux, fdupoux@partimage.org

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