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Iris is a Sharp PC-M4000 laptop | Iris is a Sharp PC-M4000 laptop | ||
She came with XP Pro installed. | She came with XP Pro installed. I spent a few evenings playing with it, updating it and installing Firefox and ArcMap and so on. Now I want to start serious work so I need to install Linux on the machine. I want the system to be dual boot. | ||
I am using Linux to create a backup image before installing Ubuntu. | Right now I am using Linux to create a backup image before installing Ubuntu. | ||
I booted from the Ubuntu 6.06 cdrom and will use the dd command to | I booted from the Ubuntu 6.06 cdrom and will use the dd command to | ||
create images of the drive partitions. | create images of the drive partitions. | ||
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original state. I should be able to safely remove the recovery partition. | original state. I should be able to safely remove the recovery partition. | ||
To be on the safe side I will also burn the recovery partition to a CD. | To be on the safe side I will also burn the recovery partition to a CD. | ||
I will also backup the MBR just in case it has weird stuff in it. | |||
I suspect it puts the "Press F10 to Recover" message on the screen. | |||
Revision as of 04:24, 3 August 2006
Iris is a Sharp PC-M4000 laptop
She came with XP Pro installed. I spent a few evenings playing with it, updating it and installing Firefox and ArcMap and so on. Now I want to start serious work so I need to install Linux on the machine. I want the system to be dual boot.
Right now I am using Linux to create a backup image before installing Ubuntu. I booted from the Ubuntu 6.06 cdrom and will use the dd command to create images of the drive partitions.
It has 4 partitions.
1 1 7649 07 NTFS 61 GB Drive C: 2 7650 9091 0f W95 11 GB Drive D: 3 9092 9729 de "Dell Utility" 1/2 GB - 5 7650 9091 07 NTFS Drive D: by another name
I presume that the third partition is the recovery partition... No need to back up sda2 as it is completely empty. This creates compressed images of the complete partition. Every bit is backed up.
dd if=/dev/sda1 | ssh -l root bread zip /home/backups/iris_sda1 - dd if=/dev/sda3 | ssh -l root bread zip /home/backups/iris_sda3 -
Clumsy but should make it possible to bring the machine back to its original state. I should be able to safely remove the recovery partition. To be on the safe side I will also burn the recovery partition to a CD.
I will also backup the MBR just in case it has weird stuff in it. I suspect it puts the "Press F10 to Recover" message on the screen.
