HELP: how to image Windows 98?

[andwan0]

My Libretto laptop 166MHz 64MB has no USB nor CD-ROM drive but it does have floppy disk booting.

I like to disk image my C:\ which contains Windows 98 SE however the problem is... most modern disk imaging are cumbersome, requires powerful PC, CD-ROM, etc. So I thought about using linux tools but problem is am not acquinted with linux. Anyway, I found a floppy linux distro (tomsrtbt). Then I found PartImage. Big problem is that most of linux tools must be built. I can't build PartImage on a P1 166MHz, it'll take forever and probably kill this 13 year old CPU.

Anyone have any good ideas? Regarding imaging a USB-less CD-ROM-less laptop?

[sachleen]

My Libretto laptop 166MHz 64MB has no USB nor CD-ROM drive but it does have floppy disk booting.

I like to disk image my C:\ which contains Windows 98 SE however the problem is... most modern disk imaging are cumbersome, requires powerful PC, CD-ROM, etc. So I thought about using linux tools but problem is am not acquinted with linux. Anyway, I found a floppy linux distro (tomsrtbt). Then I found PartImage. Big problem is that most of linux tools must be built. I can't build PartImage on a P1 166MHz, it'll take forever and probably kill this 13 year old CPU.

Anyone have any good ideas? Regarding imaging a USB-less CD-ROM-less laptop?

You could try taking the drive out and putting it in another computer, don't know if that's what you're looking for though.

[andwan0]

You could try taking the drive out and putting it in another computer, don't know if that's what you're looking for though.

That's one way yes, and then using the new modern laptop's CD-ROM with a nice linux boot CD distro to image onto the other partition....

That'll be my last resort... coz everytime I want to restore I must swap the HDs....

[Phenom II]

The only way I can think would be to remove the HDD and connect it to a USB caddy on a more powerful PC, and hope that there is an imaging program that can image an external drive

Or as above posted, set it as a 2nd HDD slave on another machine and try it that way

[Halfalive]

Does the notebook have a NIC, and support booting by it (I'm guessing it to old).

[andwan0]

Does the notebook have a NIC, and support booting by it (I'm guessing it to old).

Booting by NIC (aka PXE) is only supported if the BIOS supports it. But yes you are right. A 1996-1998 laptop won't have this feature. Plus, booting via PCMCIA (LAN card) won't work coz PCMCIA loads later stages...

Anyway, I took out the HD and plugged it into another toshiba laptop... these laptops only allow 1 HD so there's no secondary slave business here. I booted using Knoppix (linux distro live CD) and used PartImage.

[pcunite]

A commercial imaging tool named Ghost is very good. A free alternative is the System Rescue Disk but the command line is tough! Here are my notes about using it (version 2.15 I think)

1.At the CD-ROM boot prompt turn off Frame Buffer support: ?nofb? <enter>

2.Select US keyboard: ?41? <enter>

3.Access Samba share:
?mkdir /Share?
?mount -t smbfs -o lfs -o username=MyUserName //192.168.0.9/Share/Folder?

4.Remote the System Rescue PC by changing root pass:
?passwd?
Now type ifconfig to get your IP Address

5.Saving Partitions:
?partimage?

6.Restoring Partitions:
?partimage?
The partition to restore must have the same size as the saved image. Type ?run_qtparted? or 
?run_partgui? to create a partition. At CD-ROM boot you must not use the ?nofb? option for these tools.

7.Mounting a NTFS filesystem:
?mkdir /mnt/win?
?mount -o ro -t ntfs /dev/hda1  /mnt/win?
Now to enable writing to NTFS:
?cp /mnt/win/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/ntfs.sys  /var/lib/captive?
?cp /mnt/win/WINDOWS/system32/ntoskrnl.exe      /var/lib/captive?
?cd / ;  unmount /mnt/win?
?mount.captive-ntfs  /dev/hda1  /mnt/win?