Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:37:05 +1300 From: Fran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] "ghosting" windows installations under linux
It's probably your msdos.sys file. Use the one from the tarball (it's just a text file so won't hurt). Fran :):):) On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 05:23, David Nedved wrote: > 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. > > 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? > > 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. > > 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? > > Thanks in advance for any pointers, > > David > > > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list > http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives > > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- > Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be > addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text > on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe > --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ > Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest > ************************************************************** ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
