gnhlug-discuss digest, Vol 1 #780 - 2 msgs

[James Philipson]

Jeff,

If you have a network you can do the easy thing and go to 
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/.  It's sort of like a BSD style Ghost that 
uploads/downloads via ftp.  It is filesystem neutral.  Defrag first to 
make the image as small as possible.

If you want to resize the partition you might use the partition utility 
that comes with SuSE 9 (I think).  I forget the details but I think I 
remember resizing partitions with it (it's been a couple of weeks and 
I've moved on to other things).  Otherwise, it's not a bad idea to 
create a separate partition (D:\) and move My Docs or whatever WinMe 
calls it - sort of like a separate /home on Linux.

HTH,

Jim


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>Subject: Using linux to clone a Windows ME disk?
>From: Jeff Macdonald <jeff.macdonald at virtualbuilder.com>
>To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
>Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:42:00 -0500
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>Hi,
>I'm trying to upgrade my wife's laptop. She has a 10gig hd and I bought
>her a 60gig to replace it. I also got to 2.5 -> 3.5 ide adapters. My
>dual boot Win98 and Linux system sees the disks fine (I've removed my
>disks). I created a Win ME boot disk following the instructions at
>www.xxcopy.com (xcopy apparently can't copy long file names correctly,
>it creates new ones).
>
>So C drive is old disk
>D drive is new disk
>
>Problem 1.
>Win ME Fdisk only creates a 8 gig partition (bios sees all 60).
>
>Fine, I boot a Knoppix CD and use cfdisk to create a valid partition (I
>select FAT32 (0B) - not FAT32 with LBA. While I'm at it I format the
>disk using mkdosfs with -F 32 -n melissa.
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>Problem 2.
>Back in Win ME using xxcopy - it complains about write errors after a
>few hours of operation.
>
>Problem 3.
>Since formatting in Linux took about 30 secs (if even that), I decide to
>use Win ME to format disk. It dies at the end stating something out a
>write protect error!
>
>I'm now testing the media by simply copying the C drive to D using
>linux. I repartitioned the HD and formatted it with ext2. I mount the
>old disk and I'm simply doing:
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>cd /mnt/hda1
>cp -v -a * /mnt/hdb1=20
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>After that I may try reformatting the new drive again - this time using
>mkdosfs again and using linux again to do the copy. But I have doubts
>that this would work since I don't know how to see the short file names
>within linux.
>
>Should I just give up and buy ghost?
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