On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 02:53:00AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > You don't need pm to do backups. You _might_ need it to resize your > partition, but as far as possible use Linux tools. > > I resized a Windows 98 partition using FIPS which came with Red Hat > Linux. I backed uo the whole drive first, using dd to copy it to a file > across the LAN, gzip to compress the file and cdrecord (maybe mkiosfs > too) to create a CD.
GNU parted works nicely for this nowadays. It's included in Debian, and on Knoppix CDs. > btw There's an open source program called User Mode Linux, hosted at > sf.net. Like VM it lets you run several Linux instances simultaneously on > one box. AFAIK it's only available for IA32, though someone was porting it > to PPC. I used it to run Red Hat Linux 7.0 on Red Hat Linux 6.x. There is also a semi-functional port of UML to Win32, interestingly enough. -- - mdz
