[Cialug] Re: DSMGG LAN Party (WAS: Administrative stuff)

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Just wait till you start it up, it connects to the internet and starts
doing an update... without telling you what it is doing... then it
starts running slow... and you don't know why...

Anyway... you'll see...

:) Dave

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 16:31 -0600, Tim Wilson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Dec 5, 2007 4:09 PM, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com>
> wrote:
>         Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>         > On 12/5/07, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:
>         >
>         >> I'm trying to get my new laptop ready.  I want to do a
>         backup of it before 
>         >> Vista screws with it.  And doing a backup of it has proved
>         to be a pain.  If
>         >> I can get it ready in time, I plan on registering.  If not,
>         I guess I'll
>         >> catch it next time.  What is the registration deadline? 
>         >>
>         >
>         > You're going to run Vista on a gaming PC?  Everything that
>         I've read
>         > indicates that XP is much faster than Vista.  Even if I
>         liked Windows,
>         > I can't think of a compelling reason to switch (other than
>         "Ooh I 
>         > gotta have the latest release").
>         >
>         > Jeff
>         >
>         
>         I was talking to Dan J. about this at lunch - he mentioned
>         having a
>         Vista laptop for work - with no install CD, and the Vista
>         backup - 
>         create DVD thing is apparently a pain.
>         
>         I suggested just ghosting the partition with G4L (ghost for
>         linux), then
>         if you screw it up you can just restore the image.
> 
> I want to back up the drive before Vista even boots, that way if it
> fails the first time, I can always restore it back.  I also want to
> back it up after I go through the massive Windows Update list that is
> sure to be waiting for me.  But the backup before Vista boots is where
> I'm stuck.  I have Norton Ghost 2003, with a DOS based version.  It
> sees the internal drive, but not the external USB hard drive.  The
> laptop can boot from the external drive, but DOS and Norton can't see
> it.  So my thought was to put a FAT32 partition on the external drive,
> format it so it boots, and put DOS USB drivers on it.  I've gotten all
> the files together (I think), now I just have to put them on the hard
> drive.  So with luck, I'll back it up tonight.  If that fails, then I
> can still use Ghost to back up to DVD.  Since I don't know how bloated
> Vista is, I'm wary of doing that for fear I run out of discs, or have
> a stack so big, that it is unmanageable.  Or worse yet, one of the
> discs fails, and now I have a bad backup. 
> 
> I tried DSLinux and Ubuntu 6.10, and had issues either in booting or
> seeing the drives.  Perhaps another version would work better.  Does
> G4L come with Ubuntu?
> 
>         
>         
>         -dc
>         
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> Tim 
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