Adrian Levi escreveu: > My brand new laptop with windows preinstalled and the recovery > partitions, I wanted to make a disc exact archive of it so if in the > future I'd like to have a vmware or qemu instance of windows for the > kids or wife I could. After I get a copy of the info I require to > install windows Then I can quite happily blow away the whole drive and > put my Debian on it. I just can't bear to delete software that I have > paid for (First time ever :-) ). >
Most laptos have a 'recovery feature' that restores the system to its preinstalled state from an image in a hidden partition. Maybe that's already done for you, check the manual. > At least with your description I can understand why it's failing :-) > > Is what I want to do possible? I wanted to do the compression on the > new laptop as it's my fastest computer (The other computer that i'm > transferring to is an old celeron 300MHz baby with 2 750G drives as my > NAS) Yes, it is possible. I'd do something like this: use dd to read the partition and output it to stdout, pipe that into netcat, which sends to the other host. The other host has a listening netcat that passes the read output to bzip2 or whatever. -- Eduardo M Kalinowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
