On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:10:03 -0600, Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:56:55 -0700 > Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Collins Richey wrote: > > > > > > > >I would like to carve out 10 gig of the drive using parted to put a > > >linux system on the box, but I daren't do this without proper > > >backup. It's one of those accursed pre-installed WinXP beasts with > > >no system install disks. > > > > > > > > > > Bootit NG will resize the ntfs partition. Sort of like Partition > > Magic. I used it without data loss on my ntfs partition, reducing it > > to 10megs, and adding several other 10 meg reiserfs partitions, and > > a vfat to share. But as to backup, I can't help you. Ntfs is > > generally read only from linux, yes? > > > > I'm thinking of something like Norton ghost that backup/restore at the > partition level. This would work, but the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Norton folks didn't > build in standard support for CD writers. You can only use a very few > brands of CD writers.
Hi Collins, This one seems to work just fine: Make CD-ROM Recovery http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/introduction.html HTH, -- Myles Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Slackware-9.1pre + IceWM-1.2.12 + Sylpheed-0.9.4 -- Alberta Mirror Linux-SxS.org http://linux-sxs.org/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
