cloning my laptop hardrive

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Author: Anthony Hologounis
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Subject: cloning my laptop hardrive
excellent, thanks it seems to work

On Tuesday 17 June 2003 05:26 pm, Austin Godber wrote:
> 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.
>
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Anthony Hologounis