Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:24:18 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] "ghosting" windows installations under linux
At 08:23 AM 19/11/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Hmm ... strange ... that's exactly what I did (copy all files off, do a pile of stuff which involved a complete repartitioning, resysed the drive then copy everything back ... I couldn't use ghost at the time for fear of mucking up my delicate NTLDR/LILO setup). The difference is I overwrite anything that sys put there with what I had backed up. Try overwriting the msdos.sys and command.com with the versions from the TAR archive, maybe sys puts different versions on there if it sees a blank drive?Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:21:27 -0500 From: David Nedved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: "ghosting" windows installations under linux Hi All, Anyone have experience using standard linux tools to "ghost" a windows partition? I had to blow away and repartition my hard drive to get the overlay installed. Prior to this I popped the drive into my linux desktop and tarred up the entire drive. I've got my drive reinstalled, I've got the overlay installed, I've got it sys'd from a win98 boot disk. I tried extracting all the files from the tarball back onto the disk (except for the dos files in the root directory: msdos.sys, command.com, etc.). Now the machine boots back into the command line as if windows isn't even there.
Oh you don't have any autoexec.bat or config.sys flying around do you? Rename them to something else and then try it.If I type "win" it complains about himem.sys not being in the windows directory (even though it is). I thought these were all just standard files, and that other than the boot sectors, the positions of these files physically on the disk didn't really matter?
Hehe ... dd'ing a disk with EZ-Drive on it isn't recommended unless you know that it compensates for that 8kb (the partition itself isn't 8kb smaller, the area for the boot and partition stuff at the front of the drive is about 8kb smaller but either way, direct disk access with an EZ-Bios unaware program tends to cause weird things to happen).I've got the output of a dd of the entire partition, and I'm able to extract it to another drive and it works just fine, but since I've installed the overlay, I'm expecting that my partition is approx 8kb smaller, so I can't dd the contents of the old partition onto it since it's smaller.
The alternative is to do a really really basic Windows install (just select all defaults) then overwrite everything with the old backup.Has anyone else ever used linux tools to backup and restore a windows intallation? Anyone know enough about the guts of win98se to know how to get it booting into the window manager instead of just the command line?
Which reminds me ... you did do the backup with the partition mounted as vfat (so you kept the long filenames)? Without them, Win98 tends to freak out a bit ...
Hope this helps!
- Raymond
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