cloning my laptop hardrive

[Austin Godber]

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.