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On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 07 May 2008 17:16:01 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: |
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> > >> Why not put ext* or reiserfs or whatever on such a drive? |
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> > > Because you need to access it from Windows too? |
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> > To a backup device? Why? |
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> Don't Windows users need to backup? |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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Funny you should bring this up. Last week I was trying to get Gentoo |
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onto my laptop but it wasn't stable. Problems in the kernel that |
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aren't fixed earlier than 2.6.25 so I did a 'stage4' backup to save my |
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work. It now resides on a USB disk. |
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The machine itself had seemed somewhat unstable under Windows. |
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Possibly it was the memory I bought from Crucial a couple of months |
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ago. They've so I've just today done a complete restore of Win Vista |
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from the HP Recovery Disk. (This is the firs full restore. In the |
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middle I tried to get XP on the machine but there aren't any XP |
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drivers for some of the hardware in the system, etc., so I gave up.) |
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Anyway, I now have a Win Vista Home Premium install, clean when it |
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finishes virus scan. |
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I'm thinking I might as well treat data like data and just back up the |
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windows partition just like I back up the Gentoo partitions, using |
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Stage4 to do that and creating something I can reinstall using Gentoo |
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quite easily. |
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The only risky portion might be the quality of a Linux-based NTFS |
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reinstall from the tar file but it seems I have little to lose by |
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doing this. |
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Any comments? |
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- Mark |
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