[TriLUG] New Thinkpad T23!

[Jason Tower]

if your thinkpad has onboard ethernet, probably the easiest thing to do is to 
image the entire hard drive with G4U (get it from freshmeat), that way you 
always restore it if necessary.  it's an all-or-nothing affair, but it's 
completely safe and if you totally screw things up it allows you to restore 
the disk to it's previous state with ease.  i use it all the time for stuff 
like this.

jason

On Wednesday 01 January 2003 02:41, Tom Bryan wrote:
> I just bought an IBM T23 thinkpad.  It came with two primary partitions:
> /dev/hda1  1   -  3744  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2  3745 - 3876  Hidden Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
>
> Windows2000 is installed on /dev/hda1.  The /dev/hda2 partition is
> apparently a special "recovery" partition with the compressed files for
> reinstalling the base system back on to /dev/hda1.  It looks like there's
> about 800MB of data in /dev/hda2.
>
> I need to keep the Windows partition.  I have some Windows software that
> should be able to shrink /dev/hda1 so that I can put an extended partition
> between /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2.  That's where I plan to install Linux.
>
> Now, before I do that, I'd like to grab a copy of the partition table and
> the data from /dev/hda2.  That way, if I *really* screw things up, I could
> put the old partition table back in place, format the partitions, restore
> /dev/hda2, and enter recovery mode to restore the base Windows200
> installation.
>
> I was thinking that I could somehow use dd (from knoppix or tomsrtbt) and
> stream the partition table and the /dev/hda2 data over my network to my
> workstation which has plenty of disk space.  Does that sound sane?  Is
> there an easier way?
>
> ---Tom
>
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