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I was able to download a copy of System Rescue CD. I wanted to try out 'partimage' and the prospect of downloading an almost 700mb ISO image of Knoppix did not appeal to me. Since I already have other Debian variants, I did not need Knoppix just yet. I did want to try out 'partimage' and Mr. Google politely showed me the way to System Rescue CD, a linux distro specifically compiled for doing -- yes, rescues!

I haven't really explored it much. You can check out how it looks like by going to this page: http://www.sysresccd.org/screenshots.en.php. What I'm trying out actually is to use it to back-up my data partition and burn the image onto several CD-R's. I'm doing this as an experiment for a friend who owns a computer shop. His pc's have been hit by viruses (or should i say 'virii'?) and trojans several times already. Minimizing downtime is important for a shop like his. Its what makes the difference between meeting the bottomline and not. So, I am trying my darndest to convince him to turn to open source solutions even if he's using Windows XP. Kind of like a compromise just to introduce him to open source foot-in-the-door style -- LOL. wish me luck on this one.