Re: [SLE] [alg] SOT - MS verus Linux ?
From: will (deadwill_at_cryogen.com)
Date: 07/21/03
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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 23:20:10 -0500 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 05:52 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> The 03.07.20 at 11:28, Peter Evans wrote:
>
>> But if it isn't your first M$ installation and you have a clue, you'll
>> have done something like burnt ZIP files of the good stuff (and some
>> configuration files) onto a CD-R, and will be able to install from
>> there. Not a piece of cake, but not that agonizing either.
>
> I do the windows backup from inside Linux, and it works.
>
> First, I have a bootable CD with an image of the windoze C: disk - the
> image was originally provided by the computer supplier as one
> executable,
> retten.exe (I wonder what the word means :-?), and I put that on a
> bootable CD - that I use to put back the "C:" disk as it came from the
> shop.
>
> Then, from inside linux, I keep a big zip file, made from Linux, of a
> full
> backup of C:, which I unzip on top of the previously mentioned image:
> at
> this point, I have a clean install with my modifications and
> additions, in
> working order, in less that one hour work, being lazy.
>
> Instead of using the big zip - or tar.gz - file, I also have a
> compressed
> cdrom (zisofs), which is somewhat faster to use, once created.
>
> Notice that the backup, being made from Linux, can copy everything,
> because the windows system isn't running. A full backup like this can
> not
> be made from inside windows, it refuses to copy certain "in use" files.
>
> There are improvements on the above. With the mtools utilities (Linux)
> it
> is possible to read (and write) from Linux the special dos file
> attributes. I think it is possible to create a file with a list of all
> modified files, and zip only that (+a). Then "mattrib -P" will record
> the
> state of the attributes, saving a script that can be used to recreate
> them
> on the vfat partition.
>
> You see, Linux can be used to reformat and recover a windows partition
> fast ;-)
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Carlos Robinson
>
That's kewl. I'll have to remember that. I just use Norton Ghost.
Works Ok if you can get your hands on a reasonably priced copy. Does
the same thing pretty much. I like the above though. Have to try it
sometime.
thanks
will
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