I tried using Norton Ghost 9.0 to ghost a FC5 drive and it didn't work.

So I installed Partimage on my FC5 machine. It allows me to image the MBR, and any partition on the drive.

My question is: if i can restore the MBR, hda1 and hda2, would that restore the entire system to a new hard drive?

I like using partimage but, there are a couple of things to be aware of.

1. Partimage doesn't do a partition that is in use. That means you will need to run it from a livecd like Knoppix or similar. Even when using a livecd, you need to make sure that partition isn't mounted.

2. Partimage restores to partitions which are the same size or bigger. It will not restore to a smaller partition.

I haven't used partimage to copy the mbr, I use dd for that...
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1

You should format the partitions before restoring to them.

Thanks. Partimage has a bootCD you can download that runs Gentoo Linux. I tested booting to it, mounted a drive that was formatted and imaged hda1 to it. Didn't try hda2 or MBR yet.

So i guess if I had to restore to a new 80GB drive, i'd first have to recreate the hda1 & hda2 partitions exactly and format them.

You do need to make the partitions first and format them.
If you want, you can make them larger. Then, after restoring the image to the partitions, you can resize the filesystem so it uses the whole partition.
For example:
#Note: the partition needs to be un-mounted for this.

umount /mnt/hda1
e2fsck -f /dev/hda1
resize2fs -f /dev/hda1