HHmm... is the server running Windows? I assume it is. I don't know much about Windows. I will offer a suggestion that would probably work on a Unix server. Perhaps you can use the gist of it to translate it to a Windows equivalent:
I assume that you can ssh into your laptop. On your laptop: - Export / as an NFS system. On the server: - Mount your laptop's / to /mnt/laptop - Use 'tar -c /mnt/laptop -f laptop.tar; gzip laptop.tar' to backup your laptop. If the server has a tape drive, you could backup to a tape instead (refer to the tar manpage). When you get your new laptop, install your Windows and get a very basic Linux install. This Linux install should have your desired partitioning. On your new laptop: - SSH into the server and get your laptop.tar.gz file. - cd to / and do a 'tar -zxvf laptop.tar.gz'. This should restore your entire system, just as you left it. I suggest that you run this plan by someone before implementing it. I've never tried this myself, but it should work. After all, this is precisely what tar was invented for. Good luck, Daniel. On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:26:57PM -0500, John H wrote: > I have gentoo installed on a work supplied Dell Laptop. > The screen went bad, and my network guy says most likely Dell will > replace the unit rather than fix the screen. > > It's a dual boot box, and it's the only linux machine that is in the > office. (I.e., it's not really supported). > > He intends to back up the windows side to the server, but I dont know > what to do with the linux side. > > So, option 1 is back up the linux side to the server (I'll need appx 7 > gigs to do this, and I think they'll give it to me for a short period of > time. I am busy checking). > But I dont really know how, so any tips would be appreciated. > > Option2, would be to just save a record somewhere (a text file) of my > make.conf, heck maybe the entire /etc/ directory and a list of all my > installed ebuilds. > > Any advice/ recommendations appreciated. > > This is a dell latitiude x200, and it took a fair amount of hacking to > get gentoo on it. I am not looking forward to doing it again. And I > am not sure I can remember all the steps I took. > > Other info: > 30 gig hd split appx 50-50 windows 200/ gentoo 1.4 > firewire cd drive > > Thanks to all. > Gentoo is great! > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- Daniel Carrera Graduate Teaching Assistant. Math Dept. University of Maryland. (301) 405-5137 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
