Civileme wrote:
>
> I think it would be wise to reread the End User License Agreement
> (EULA) that came with your Windows system to assure yourself you are
> permitted to do that.
>
> If you have Win98 and it was fully installed, not jury-rigged by some
> ready-made, there is a file called bootdisk.bat in your \windows\command
> directory which will make a marvelous recovery floppy, (or complain
> about missing files if the system was preloaded by the usual gang at the
> factory). Your win98 CD is bootable. Win95 no such luck.
>
> But why would you want to do this? I can see making a backup, but not a
> bootable recovery CD when a floppy is all that is needed.
This is probably not a Linux Mandrake specific thing, but I think
that it has merit. For instance, in a dual boot machine, the
MSDOS partition could be mounted and then written out to a CD.
It would then be nice if the CD could be bootable and made to
restore the CD image to the MSDOS partition. This would be
a dynamite backup. It is almost impossible to do in Win95/98/DOS
as certain files will not copy over. But Linux would have no
such trouble.
As for the EULA, it does allow for archival or backup copies.
I like it. Take a snapshot of your Win98 machine and its the
perfect backup!
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