cloning my laptop hardrive

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Author: Austin Godber
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Subject: cloning my laptop hardrive
I have had some luck using partimage on knoppix. I mount a samba fileshare that
has enough space, and let partimage back up the desired partition, letting it
split into 2GB files since SAMBA I think has a 2GB file limit.

Austin

Anthony Hologounis wrote:
> hello all
>
>
> I got a laptop from work with win98 installed and a PCMCIA nic.
>
> I want to back up the win98 image for safe keeping. The laptop is a dell and I
> don't have the recovery cd. I plan to dual boot with rh9.
>
> I can boot the laptop with a knoppix cd and the pcmcia nic is detected so I
> can see my network.
>
> Whats the best tool to use? I was thinking using the dd command but am not
> sure if there any issues with master boot records or not.