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Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:50:38 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Looking forward to the new & improved installer

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In <41468E62.CF02AA95@pacbell.net>, on 09/13/04
at 10:24 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>I forgot to mention something important. When working with DFSEE
>partition imaging, do NOT use compressed images (.IMZ) for Win-32 boot
>partitions, only the raw, full-size .IMG images. Probably shouldn't use
>the compressed ones for *any* NTFS partitions. The eCS partitions don't
>seem to care, which leads me to guess that the compressed images still
>manage to scoop up the EAs. The compressed images are a small fraction
>the size of the raw ones, and therefore more convenient to work with.
>Guessing again, I'm thinking that Redmond is doing something funky in the
>so-called "free space" area of the partition, among other problems.

Me thinks you should be posting this to the dfsee list so that Jan can see
your conclusions. I do not recall reading anything related to these kinds
of limitations. If they do exist, I'm sure Jan will want to correct them.

Regards,

Steven

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