Transferring disks with partimage

[Joep L. Blom]

Following my question of 07/12/09 I would like to know if anybody has 
experience with transferring partitions over the network to another system.
As I wrote I want to transfer partitions (> 10) to another system on one 
disk. I found I can use partimage to make an imagefile and transfer it 
either directly or indirectly to the other system.
However, I have the following questions:
1.	 When I restore the image do I need an unformatted partition?
2.	Can I combine several partition images into one restored image?
I hope somebody has experience with it. Googling I didn't found relevant 
information.
Joep