Alex v Kaam wrote on Oct 26th, 2008 at 4:02am:If the system can boot from usb use the g4l usb stick a few post down, if you have problems using it do an fdisk -l and I am sure can get you through it. then boot vmware from the usb and restore.
I was worried about image compatibility, how to convert the resulting image to a vmaware virtual disk. After all, you don't have to, you just have to boot the vm using the same program and restore the image to the virtual disk.
So, in the end, I used clonezilla and wrote the image to a Windows share. Had some trouble with the restore because clonezilla can't restore an image to a smaller disk even if the space used is smaller.
I had an uncompressed image with 1.5 Gb but it wont extract to a 8 Gb virtual disk, my guess is that's because clonezilla do a direct dd of the partition table and restore it with dd too, so, if the disk is smaller the linux in the clonezilla disk starts to act strange and don't let you do the restore.
So, one HAVE to define a virtual disk that is larger than the original disk, then you can do the restore. I think that later I'll be able to resize the partition (on the vm) using partition magic or something similar.
I'm still fighting with w98 in order to stop it crashing when it loads device drivers for the old hardware, but the clone part is done.
Thank you all.