What email client are you running under Linux? What protocols are you using to grab email from your mail server? It may be easier just to copy some email dirs from your old Linux partition and import them into your new email client than to run Linux virtually.
Do something like: boot up with tomsrtbt disk $ mount /dev/sdx /mnt/oldLinuxPartition $ mount /dev/sdy /mnt/someWritablePartition $ tar -cvzf /mnt/someWritablePartition/myoldhomedir.tar.gz \ /mnt/oldLinuxPartition/home/yourusername This will make a tarball of your old home directory, which should contain your email. Of course, you could just make a tarball of your email directory, if known. John Hebert Jeremy J Bertrand wrote: > Hey folks, > I have a question about running a 586 optimized linux virtually through > virtual pc. > My base system is ms windows with a duron 700, 512mb pc133, 56k dialup, > 10/100 linksys ethernet, onboard sound, nvidia ti gf2, win xp pro sp1. > I have a partion setup for linux but I don't wanna wipe out the stuff I have > there because I didn't put a seperate the user dir from the root and my > install is messed up because I tried to install the proprietary nvidia > drivers and it didn't work. > All I would really want to do was grab my email from the current linux part. > and then reinstall after I formatted the part. and start from scratch. > The current dist I have is mandrake 9. > > Would running it virtually be enough for me to grab my mail then format that > partition so I could start over? > > Jeremy Bertrand > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- John Hebert: [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Engineer: I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com 225.922.4535
