On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 20:39:20 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote: > > Is there an easy way to backup a windows partition then restore it later > > without gimping anything that windows requires? > > > > I have a small hda (hda1 is a win98 partition, the rest is a swap and a > > linux partition). My active linux systems are on hdb. > > > > I want to retain the win98 stuff (rest of hda is not needed) then replace > > hda with a much larger disk, restore the win98 stuff, redo grub, etc. > > > > Booting without hda is no problem, since I have a grub boot disk. > > > > I just want to avoid the pain of reinstalling win98 (mucho yucky, worse than > > configuring sendmail). > > > try and get a copy of ghost. Then you can move the wintendo partition > over to the new drive. Less hassle then any back-up scheme. > I'm not familiar with ghost. Does this mean create a fat partition on the other drive and then copy, or does ghost do that some other way? Do the from/to partitions need to be identical size? > On another note, I just put a new system together and starting the > gentoo install as I type. For some reason I could not get my scsi cdrom > to boot the live cd. We got arround it and am now waiting for the > "emerge system" to complete. I thought that this wasn't so bad on an AMD > 750 Athlon but this 1.8 G Athlon sure seems snappy. > Yeah, I'm on the same CPU, and it works great. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
