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Posted: Mar. 21 2004,00:24 |
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First of all, you need to make sure that the XP partition is indeed shown as /dev/hda1. On some Dell machines, it is not. When you boot DSL from the CD, then you can go to /mnt and ls to see the partitions that have been found. I have one machine with 16 partitions, and DSL shows all of them in /mnt.
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With DSL, I don't do a hard drive install in the regular fashion, like one would with Redhat 9, for instance. Look here to see how I do it:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/general_howto
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I would store my backup.tar.gz and filetool.lst in your /dev/hda2, your
second partition, however, and place a copy of the /knoppix folder in
/dev/hda1 (in with Windows XP). As long as your Windows XP partition is /dev/hda1, then a boot floppy for DSL will find it. Then you can restore from /dev/hda2. The general_howto has the procedure on that.
In that case, you'll be running DSL off the hard drive, not the cd.
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If you run off the cd, then you could just place your backup.tar.gz and filetool.lst in the root directory of /dev/hda1 (in with Windows XP) and
restore from there. On my Dell XP machine, I have to run off the cd, and use a usb drive (thumb drive, etc.) of 64 MB to restore. My restoration tarball is about 17 MB, and I can use it with either Damn Small Linux 0.6.1, or Luit Linux 0.2, no problem, just depends on which cd I put in the drive.
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Dells being sold now partition XP in /dev/hde2, which cannot be found by the knoppix bunch of OS's.
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http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/getting_started.html
Rapidweather Remaster of Knoppix Linux:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/getting_started.html
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