leo's questions

I would like to know the best practices or at least the method to do the following things that I am working on.

I have installed triple-boot OS (Windows 7, RHEL Linux and Mac OS 10.6) on iMac 7 using the rEFit tool.

The goal I want to achieve is to make disk images of each of the partitions of the OS so that I can restore and install the images of them on other Mac machines.

I already made a Windows 7 image through a script that I wrote with help of ntfsclone. I would like to know how to create a Linux image and a Mac OS image.

Will vanilla dd command like dd if=/dev/sda3 of=~/linux.img do the job? Mac OS partition can be imaged through the built-in disk utility as far as I know

Are the above methods workable to create a bootable image? Do I need to merge them somehow and if so, how? How can I include the EFI boot partition to make them bootable?

I am trying to use checkinstall to build a package from source code. However, when I run checkinstall , it ask :

/root/rpmbuild has no source directory, please write the path to the rpm source directory tree.

I am running on Fedora 12 and system was installed through kickstart via repository of dvd of fc12. I was not aware of the rpm source directory during the installation.

So how can I check whether rpm source has been installed or not? If not, how to make the rpm source directory so that I can please the checkinstall and build the package successfully? Or can I bypass it?