Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:21:27 -0500 From: David Nedved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: "ghosting" windows installations under linux
Hi All, Anyone have experience using standard linux tools to "ghost" a windows partition? I had to blow away and repartition my hard drive to get the overlay installed. Prior to this I popped the drive into my linux desktop and tarred up the entire drive. I've got my drive reinstalled, I've got the overlay installed, I've got it sys'd from a win98 boot disk. I tried extracting all the files from the tarball back onto the disk (except for the dos files in the root directory: msdos.sys, command.com, etc.). Now the machine boots back into the command line as if windows isn't even there. If I type "win" it complains about himem.sys not being in the windows directory (even though it is). I thought these were all just standard files, and that other than the boot sectors, the positions of these files physically on the disk didn't really matter? I've got the output of a dd of the entire partition, and I'm able to extract it to another drive and it works just fine, but since I've installed the overlay, I'm expecting that my partition is approx 8kb smaller, so I can't dd the contents of the old partition onto it since it's smaller. Has anyone else ever used linux tools to backup and restore a windows intallation? Anyone know enough about the guts of win98se to know how to get it booting into the window manager instead of just the command line? Thanks in advance for any pointers, David ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
