Lance B
From: Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Peanut Linux?
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:49:29 +0000
Hey mate,
as far as I know Ghost is a proprietary piece of software and what you
suggest is illegal.
I suggest you use just some thing like a really big tar ball or
something.
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 08:44, Sir Lancelot wrote:
> You could "ghost" it from one drive to the other. It is a DOS utility but
> works well with Linux file systems - don't know if there is a similar Linux
> utility though.
>
> I can lend you a floppy with Ghost on it if you need it - contact off list
> if so.
>
> Lance Blackler
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ronald Highet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 9:07 PM
> Subject: RE: Peanut Linux?
>
>
> I have just purchased a 20gig drive for my laptop and need some info on
> how to transfer my Linux partition onto the new drive.
>
> My current setup is a 8 gig drive with
> 4 gig winxp partition
> 4 gig debian 3.0 unstable (of course with necessary swap and so on)
>
> My question is 'is it possible to keep my setup' and just transfer it
> all to the new harddrive. It took me bloody ages to get the debian
> working correctly as I need all sorts of weird and wonderful kernel
> patches and fix it's to get my very strange network card going and the
> screen at the correct resolution.
>
> To top it off Im also running out of space on the 4gig partition and
> would like to when I copy the current setup to my new harddrive but into
> a larger (10-15gig) partition for future expansion.
>
> The setup is a:
> Dell Inspiron 3800
> Mobile pIII 700
> With 128mb ram
> Belkin Cardbus PCMCIA nic
>
> Maybe Im dreaming and will need to reinstall, but the last time I did
> that I almost had to pawn my kidneys to get help getting it going, and I
> only have so many kidneys you know!
>
> Cheers
> Ronald
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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