Hi all,

My situation is the following:

I have one PII 350 with 64MB of RAM, ethernet card and no CD drive. There is Windows 95 installed on it. I wanted to make a backup of it connecting it by a crossover cable to a laptop with CDRW. So I was thinking to boot the PII 350 with a light Linux distribution on disquette and maybe an ftp server to allow comunication with the laptop. And boot the laptop with Knoppix or similar (both pcs are at work with NT installed and I can't change network settings, that's why I want to boot with knoppix) to make the backup on CDRW.

Could you help me?. Do you think it's possible?

Thanks a lot

I would give freesco a try,
http://www.freesco.info/?L=overview&...e3f65193ffb179

There's also coyote linux, but last time I read the specs, it had no ide support.

This list of live cd's and spec distros can give you some help, also:
http://www.frozentech.com/content/li...sort=ImageSize


Edit: From this list, you can see tomsrtbt, which is also a good choice.

Also, you may want to check out Unison.

"Unison runs on both Windows (95, 98, NT, and 2k) and Unix (Solaris, Linux, etc.) systems. Moreover, Unison works across platforms, allowing you to synchronize a Windows laptop with a Unix server, for example."

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/u...on-manual.html

edit: Ooops - this is more of a sync than a backup. Sorry.

Backing up specific Files??

Backing up the whole system (OS and all??) -- use Norton Ghost
if you want I made a custom BootCD you could use ask if ya want it

I would like to back-up the whole partition. Anything similar to Norton Ghost would be great. The only problem is that the computer I want to back up does not have CD-drive. That's why I want to connect it to a laptop by a crossover cable and use the CDRW of the laptop to burn the image.
Do you think that if I boot with a Norton Ghost floppy I would be able to burn in the laptop CDRW?

Thanks