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Re: Backup/Restore of DOS/Win95 partition under Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Borg)
Sat Nov 23 15:54:36 1996
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 12:53:06 -0800
From: Borg <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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Skull wrote:
>
> >I want to replace a 1 gb disk with a new 2.5 gb disk on my system.
> >I would like to move my DOS/Win95 partition to another disk (larger)
> >on my system. Can I just tar up the /dosd partition and then do a
> >restore on the new disk. Will the long names, etc. be O.K.? Is
> >there anything else I need to do?
> no... everything will break... win95 does NOT like to be moved...
> you'll have to reinstall win95 on the new partition or find a utility
> that will copy it.. I've heard that such a program exists but have
> never seen it.
Hmm... I used to tar and gzip all kinds of partitions
including vfat, msdos and OS/2, never had any problems.
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