Re: [newbie] backup/restore/repartitioning

2004-07-26 Thread Asa Rossoff
Frank wrote: Though the CD part may not apply to you, you may wish to start with what is offered here to make a tar ball of your full system which ought to fit within the space you have left on your windows system:

Re: [newbie] backup/restore/repartitioning

2004-07-26 Thread Asa Rossoff
Frank wrote: H OK! Your choice of using Mandrake to do the actually partitioning and formating is your only choice if you wish to have your Windows partition survive the exercise un-disturbed. Your only other such option is to use something like Partition Magic. AS ALWAYS! You

[newbie] backup/restore/repartitioning

2004-07-25 Thread Asa Rossoff
I have a situation where (1) my partition table is screwed up, and (2) I have been wanting to resize my partitions anyway... file access seems to be working, but all the partition tools complain about errors, and cfdisk gives a fatal error and won't even run. I'm pretty sure that diskdrake

Re: [newbie] backup/restore/repartitioning

2004-07-25 Thread Frank
Though the CD part may not apply to you, you may wish to start with what is offered here to make a tar ball of your full system which ought to fit within the space you have left on your windows system: