From: Jef Knoors (jknoors@zonnet.nl)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 08:16:05 CEST
Aahhhh Norton Ghost,
Seem all those MS users, like me, learn a lot about backing up.
IF; .AND. ENDIF
FORTRAN for you, it Clipper for me.
Same commands, funny isn't it ?
Are the any Clipper programmers on the mail list? (Schooner for mulinux)
----- Original Message -----
From: Sabino Maggi <maggi@ien.it>
To: <mulinux@sunsite.auc.dk>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [mu TECH] A new installer for DOS
> > In my pentium, I've much free disk space, but is not so easy
> > install NT4 in the desidered partition. I do not trust in
> > MS installer, because there is no trusted way to enstablish the
> > destination partition. I fear the installer may plugh my
> > important data without notifyation :-) MS product expects a whole
> > disk and often starts reformatting. I'm not such able guy to
> > control this feature.
> >
> > Michele
>
> Problems do not usually appear in NT except that -- if I remember well --
> the boot loader or something like that needs to be installed in the first
> partition of the hd. I can check if you wish.
> IF (I am right) .AND. (you have a win95/98 in the first partition) THEN
> it should be safe to install NT on your system
> ENDIF
> (ah, the good ol' & refreshin' FORTRAN)
> And, with the NT bootloader you can boot also win95/98/3.1 (not linux, of
> course).
>
> In any case, you should definitely consider using a tool like
> Norton Ghost or the like to save the image(s) of your hd, either on a free
> partition or, better, on a CD-R. This saves much time and effort.
> I use it since a couple of years and I periodically make images of my NT
> and Linux partitions. In the eventuality of a system crash you reboot in
> dos, launch ghost, load the image from hd/cd-r and... you are back to your
> last backup! I have restored this way my NT at least twice, without
> reinstallation, without any data loss :-()
> You should try.
>
> Hope this helps, cheers
> -- Sabino
>
>
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