Disk space required for imaging partitions

[Bill Catlan]

Hello All,

In Section 8 of the documentation, it states in Step 1 to:

"Install Windows on a machine, with the setup you want. You can have the 
partition as big as you want, so long as you don't use more than 640 Mb, and you 
leave enough room for a complete Linux install, and another 1300 Mb for two 
copies of the CD image."

First, it seems that the 640 Mb limit is solely for squeezing the image onto a 
CDROM.  I have successfully "imaged" a 2 Gb partition and restored it to a new 
partition on a different physical drive.   Can someone confirm that the size 
limitation is merely in consideration of putting the image onto a CDROM, and not 
an intrinsic limitation of parted?

Secondly,  Step 1 also states "and you leave enough room for a complete Linux 
install, and another 1300 Mb for two copies of the CD image."  Ignoring the 
"enough room for a complete Linux install" part, is the required "room" a total 
of 1300 Mb, or is it 1300 Mb + 640 Mb, or 1940 Mb?  Also, assuming the room 
required is 1300 Mb, where is this required - on the source partition? ... the 
restore partition? ... some temp partition?  Why is it required?

Thanks.

Bill Catlan