Windows is a pain. I have successfully backed up my Windows partitions with tar, and after a disk swap have restored them. There is nothing positional in Windows 98 and ME. After restoring a Windows9x (or ME) partition with tar, you must ruin the sys.exe utility on it. (I maintain windows on my machine as dual boot only when there is some overriding reason to run Windows - talking to the droids at AT&T Broadband, or possibly to troubleshoot problems with a printer where the management utilities are Windows based). Backing up and restoring a Linux file system is (IMHO) better performed with a file by file type of backup, not an image backup. In both cases you need to have a boot diskette for your Windows system (so you can do sys), and also the SuSE installation media or a recovery diskette for Linux. LILO essentially does a similar thing for Linux as sys does for Windows in that it points the boot code to point to the system loader. On 4 Apr 2002 at 9:05, Michael Garabedian wrote:
Well depending on your filesystem you have to be careful. -- Jerry Feldman Portfolio Partner Engineering 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/ Compaq Computer Corp. 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752