Hey, gurus...

The win98 drive on another computer is failing, we're networked together with samba and a crossover cable.

I need to know how to take the image of the drive of that networked computer so I can transfer it to a new drive... Basically "ghosting" the old drive onto one partition of the new drive, and leaving extra space on the new drive in that computer for linux to use.


Essentially, copying everything from the hda1 of that computer to a file onto my harddrive and then copying it to the new hard drive of that computer...

What's the best way of going about this?

Can't figure it out

-Shade

try man mkisofs

I had success with xxcopy ( www.xxcopy.com ). It was really easy!

Download xxcopy to your windows machine.
Install a new hdd as "slave" on your windows machine. Use fdisk to create a partition large enough for your windows files on the new drive (be very careful here to make sure you are partitioning the new disk, not the old one!!). Now format this partition for windows.
Clone windows to the new hdd with xxcopy. Take out the old drive, set the new one as "Master" and "Bootable" (maybe xxcopy does this for you, I forget now). Reboot. Win98 should run as smoothly as it ever does.

If the new drive is larger than the old one, you will now have free space after the windows partition to allocate to linux partitions.

Hope this works for you.