[TriLUG] Installfest question

[Lee Fickenscher]

As a side note to this, the last time I was at Stay Online looking for a
2.5 to 3.5 hard disk adapter, they wanted over $20 for the adapter and the
mounting rails. CompUSA, however, now carries the adapter without the
rails for $8.

Lee

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:45:04AM -0500, Jason Tower wrote:
> if your laptop has an onboard ethernet port (mini-PCI, not pcmcia) then G4U 
> can be used to image the current disk quite easily, then copy it back to the 
> new disk.  failing that, it gets a little more compicated since we're dealing 
> with a laptop drive instead of a standard drive.  my advice: spend a few 
> extra bucks and get a 2.5" to 3.5" disk adapter, intrex may sell them, 
> stayonline sells them for sure.  then you can stick it in a regular PC and 
> image it using G4U, dd, whatever.  and yes, we can help you do that at the 
> installfest.  but arrive early, disk imaging can take a while, especially on 
> a slow laptop drive.
> 
> jason
> 
> On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:29, Justin Johnson wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I have a laptop that I use for 'couch coding' and surfing that
> > is currently running XP. I need to keep XP on it for development
> > purposes, but I really would like to install linux as I am trying
> > to move away from Windows as my primary OS at home.
> >
> > Problem is that I only have a 4gb drive in this laptop. I can pick up
> > a 20-40 GB drive at Intrex, butI would need to image my current OS up
> > to a server, swap drives and then restore the image to a partition on
> > the new drive before instaling linux. I've used PowerQuest drive image
> > in the past to do imaging, but I don't  have a copy of that. Is there
> > a way to do what I want with linux tools, and if so, would that be beyond
> > the scope of the installfest?
> >
> > Just wondering....
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Justin
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