[TriLUG] Installfest question

[Jason Tower]

if your laptop has an onboard ethernet port (mini-PCI, not pcmcia) then G4U 
can be used to image the current disk quite easily, then copy it back to the 
new disk.  failing that, it gets a little more compicated since we're dealing 
with a laptop drive instead of a standard drive.  my advice: spend a few 
extra bucks and get a 2.5" to 3.5" disk adapter, intrex may sell them, 
stayonline sells them for sure.  then you can stick it in a regular PC and 
image it using G4U, dd, whatever.  and yes, we can help you do that at the 
installfest.  but arrive early, disk imaging can take a while, especially on 
a slow laptop drive.

jason

On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:29, Justin Johnson wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have a laptop that I use for 'couch coding' and surfing that
> is currently running XP. I need to keep XP on it for development
> purposes, but I really would like to install linux as I am trying
> to move away from Windows as my primary OS at home.
>
> Problem is that I only have a 4gb drive in this laptop. I can pick up
> a 20-40 GB drive at Intrex, butI would need to image my current OS up
> to a server, swap drives and then restore the image to a partition on
> the new drive before instaling linux. I've used PowerQuest drive image
> in the past to do imaging, but I don't  have a copy of that. Is there
> a way to do what I want with linux tools, and if so, would that be beyond
> the scope of the installfest?
>
> Just wondering....
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
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