New twist on drive copy - Win - Win using Linux to stage?

[Brian Densmore]

If you want to be able to boot you would have to copy the file system as
a whole. The dd function might work for that. There might also be some
relative of mkfs for that. I seem to remember something about that, but
can put my finger on it right now. I don't know that you can take a
1.3GB image and stick it on a 3GB disk, and make it bootable as a
complete system. Anyway, I think dd is your best bet. it should copy
sector by sector.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Hoelschers [mailto:mohoel at telocity.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:12 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: New twist on drive copy - Win - Win using Linux to stage?
> 
> 
> Got another question.  Comes from being cheap, I guess.
> 
> Anyway, this is for my daughter's laptop....  Here's my 
> problem.  I have
> a 3 gig drive (empty) to replace a 1.3 gig drive (working Win98 load),
> but like I say, they are for a laptop, and I only have one adapter to
> plug a laptop drive into a desktop IDE cable. 
> 
> However, I've got a nice, big disk in my Dual Boot 
> Linux/Win98 box, so I
> was thinking about; 
> 
> 1. Use available space on my desktop drive (/dev/hda) 
>   {a directory in the FAT32 partition housing Windows? 
>   {a directory under Linux ext2? 
>   {make a seperate partition and format for Dos? 
> 2. Copy the 1.3 gig laptop drive to this space 
>   {which method would be best for Windows data? DD, TAR, CPIO? 
> 3. Swap the 1.3 for the 3.0 
> 4. Copy that space to the 3.0 gig drive 
> 
> Any chance in the world to do this and have the 3 gig drive 
> come out as
> a bootable Windows 98 drive? 
> 
> Thanks for any help....
> Chris.
> 
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