[ltp] backing up a laptop

[André Wyrwa]

Hi,

> firstly, the partition information might get screwy. I'd just copy the  
> partition, not the whole drive, but I'd have to do some funky stuff  
> resizing the partition to use the rest of the (potentially larger)  
> drive.

I once did the same kind of thing by making a big tarball (but i just
stored it on another partition to reformat the original one).
Works great and you can partition your new drive as you like.

> secondly, fiding a linux-floppy that supports pcmcia and nfs might be  
> challenging.

How about CD? I think every major distro has some kind of self booting
rescue cd.

André.