Win2K on a laptop 168 plus 12
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Lin¿nut wrote on Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:43:53 -0600
On Thursday 10 March 2005 00:14 Liam Slider Yes and no. I think it was announced about a year ago, and that he's just found time to call in at...
Why not? :-)
I just rescued my Linux system from a fate worse than rest, for example; it wasn't that difficult although I did lose some system files. The biggest problem there is a kstars data file; since I don't use kstars on a regular basis, I wasn't all that worried. Some kernel source files in kernel sources I wasn't using were also affected -- or perhaps afflicted. The system actually did die very shortly after the copy (about 1 day) but I was able to get it back up and running with a GRUB universal boot disk; most of the time was spent physically moving the drive (and going over to the Kayak to look up a jumper setting on the Internet; for some reason the drive didn't have the settings printed thereon -- and yes, the Kayak was running Win98, but apart from being used as a browser I could have used another Linux node it didn't do much during the actual copy).
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And all this while the system disk was whining and grinding. Whining because of recalibrates; grinding for who knows what reason but probably because it couldn't read a sector or something. I can't say at this point.
The disk drive actually hasn't died quite yet -- I just tested it in another machine -- but it's very sickly.
Now, I ask our local Wintroll gurus who seem to think that Windows can solve everything. Could I have done this copy in Windows XP without it barfing to rest? Would I have been able to swap disks and reboot without trouble?
There's nothing horribly magic I had to do apart from boot from a floppy (since one cannot expect tar to set up the boot block properly!).
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