On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 14:37 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 22:40 -0600, Joseph wrote:
What is the best way to transfer content of an old HD to a new one
bigger one?
what are you transferring the win98 stuff to? win98, windows-other,
gentoo?
Unfortunately yes, :-( I
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 14:37 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
Lastly, what does the program do? My wife is a Dental Assistant, and
I've been trying to convince her boss to switch to a computer based
appointment and record system, but he doesn't want to spend any
money...
I forgot to mention, they
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 23:51 -0600, Joseph wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 14:37 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 22:40 -0600, Joseph wrote:
What is the best way to transfer content of an old HD to a new one
bigger one?
what are you transferring the win98 stuff to?
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 15:38 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
The easiest method to transfer would be to install new drive as
master
change the existing one old one as slave.
Boot from Knoppix CD and do:
# dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda
Reboot the computer and that should do it I think. Did I
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 00:24 -0600, Joseph wrote:
My idea would be to install Dental program on Linux and post it on the
net the procedure; I'm sure more than few Dentists would take an
advantage of it and free them from Windows oppression :-/
have you tried wine? make sure you have a
On Friday 02 June 2006 17:07, Iain Buchanan wrote:
Lastly, what does the program do? My wife is a Dental Assistant, and
I've been trying to convince her boss to switch to a computer based
appointment and record system, but he doesn't want to spend any money...
http://www.soeidental.com/
Bogo
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:24:58 -0600, Joseph wrote:
No, don't do it this way, as you won't be able to use any extra space.
Windows 98 uses FAT32, which is very well supported under linux.
Utilizing extra space shouldn't be that hard, by partitioning new HD
disk portion as new drive.
You
Joseph wrote:
I could do disk image and transfer it over to a new HD but the disk
image will not utilize the whole new HD space; the remaining space I
could activate as a new drive I think.
What else could I try?
Do the image transfer, and then try using parted to resize the filesystem.
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On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 22:40 -0600, Joseph wrote:
What is the best way to transfer content of an old HD to a new one
bigger one?
what are you transferring the win98 stuff to? win98, windows-other,
gentoo?
in any case, make the new hd your primary one (primary master), and the
old one secondary
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