Re: X22 issues

[Michael Thaler <michael.thaler@physik.tu-muenchen.de>]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 06:43:17PM -0000, Ross Burton wrote:

> partition, which is the strangest idea I've ever heard.  What if I need to
> rescue the machine because the disk crashed?  As you can imagine, this is a
> large partition (~750M) - does anyone know if it can be burnt onto a couple
> of CDs easily? Has anyone asked for rescue CDs from IBM?

if it is a Fat32 partion mount it with Linux and copy it to a file
cp /dev/hdaX filename where X is the partion should do. You can tar
it, maybe it fits on a CD. The same you can just do with your Win
Partition. You can just copy it back if win crashes and will not work anymore.

Greetings,
Michael