[wplug] Desperate plea for help -- install on IBM X31 ThinkPad

[Ghataora, Hardeep]

The Windows XP backup tool needs Windows XP to be installed to do the
trick

Another solution depending on space constraints I guess could be dual
booting, or if you're just doing this for a day or two you could always
download an evaluation copy of VMWare, you'll get 30 days to use it,
then you wouldn't need to scrap the existing operating system. 

Just a thought.

H

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran at potentialtech.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 12:58 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Desperate plea for help -- install on IBM X31
ThinkPad


Jennifer Landefeld wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> Well, it has finally happened. After many moons of lurking and some
> managing of pizza ordering at install fests I'm now faced with an 
> install of my own. (-:
> 
> First, if any of you are at CMU at the moment and happen to have a Red
> Hat install CD set of 9.0 I'd be most grateful.
> 
> Failing that, what do I download to do a vanilla install on the 
> notebook
> and is there something in XP that will allow me to make a full restore

> disk of the Win OS before I wipe it out to install Linux? I work for a

> faculty member who wants this done and I think I should have the
*evil* 
> OS backed up somewhere "just in case".

On the XP front ...

XP has a backup tool that can be used to backup the entire system to
file. I don't know what it would take to restore it afterwards, as I've
never had to do it.

You could also use something like ghost, which grabs entire partitions
very nicely and even has a bootable floppy to allow you to restore over
a network.

I've also done this with a bootable FreeBSD CD, using dd to copy the
entire partition to a file ...

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com

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