[5770] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Backup/Restore of DOS/Win95 partition under Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Sat Nov 23 16:01:15 1996
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 15:58:03 -0500
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From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
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>> >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.
was it the primary bootable partition? I guess i've never
run linux and win95 on the same machine, but I've never been
able to copy a win95 bootable primary partition to another
without a reinstall of win95, else everything was more or less
corrupt.
Darron
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