[ltp] backing up a laptop

[Glyn Kennington]

André Wyrwa wrote:
> > 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

All I needed was
  cp -ax 
(and the -x may have been redundant)

> > 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.

Not all Thinkpads have a BIOS that will allow booting from the CD,
though.  You might need to create a boot floppy that will load a CD
driver, and then boot the CD.

Glyn

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