On 27 Nov 00, at 7:42, Tom Oehser wrote:
>
> > Hmm. EVERY exerience I have had with moving or cloning bootable
> > vfat partitions like this (ie, using cp -a or tar or dd whatever)
> > has been a total failure, with MANY more problems than can be
>
> I can only say that I have done it routinely with no problems...
>
> The key is just to have the right windows recovery floppy and to do the
> SYS command. The SYS command is required.
>
> > My advice is to clone vfat partitions using either ghost.exe
> > from a dos boot disk, or partition image. But do an excellent job
>
> Ick. The dd or cp -af work fine!
Thanx, so it is my plan:
I mount my Win 98: mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /win98
I copy all stuff to directory on another hard drive (I have to wipe everything
from the first hd): cp -r /win98 /backups/win98/
Is "cp -af" better than "cp -r" ?
After that I fix and repartition the first disk
I format the first partition using Win 98 boot floppy: format c:
transfer system files: sys C:
Then I boot tomsrtbt and copy backed up Windows:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win98
cp -r /backups/win98/ /win98
I am done.
Did I miss anything? (My survival depends on it ! :) )
I will be very grateful
Marcin Mankowski
