Re: Windows, alas! (was: KDE being removed?)

2006-09-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-04 23:44:15, schrieb Owen Heisler: > This is a very ironic and hilarious topic. Every time I do some drive > changing in Linux (and when I'm done everything _just works_), I can't > help but think of trying something like that in Windows. Instead (with > Windows), you fight, fight, an

Re: Windows, alas!

2006-09-05 Thread Paul Seelig
Scott Reese wrote: If you want to back up the Windows partition from Linux, you need to do it at a bit level rather than a file level. Using dd works, and you can feed that through bzip to compress it, if space is an issue. I was very happy using ntfsclone from the ntfsprogs package for backing

Re: Windows, alas!

2006-09-05 Thread Scott Reese
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Do you happen to know just what has to be backed up to be able to restore > Windows fron > backup and even have it boot? Every time I've tried it with the current crop > of > Windowses just copying all the files (using Linux tar) and running lilo > hasn't sufficed

Re: Windows, alas! (was: KDE being removed?)

2006-09-04 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 21:11 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 05:44:13PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2006-08-31 13:38:22, schrieb Hal Vaughan: > > > On Thursday 31 August 2006 08:36, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > > > > Then some hours later you come back and see y

Windows, alas! (was: KDE being removed?)

2006-09-04 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 05:44:13PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-08-31 13:38:22, schrieb Hal Vaughan: > > On Thursday 31 August 2006 08:36, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > > Then some hours later you come back and see you have Vista running... > > > > > > =8-O > > > > That's not funny. >