It would appear that on May 11, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say: > Thanks again Luciano, I much appreciate the informative explanation. -snipped. . . . . . . . . .stuff > Thanks One more tar question for the expert users... Tar is becoming part of my primary back up strategy for all my linux partitions. Tar, split & xcdroast works for me! But I'd like to make it a complete strategy and even use it to back up my windows stuff... I can't think of a reason why it can't. I could do some empirical testing I suppose. But if I restore my win98 from a tarfile and it doesn't work, Id regret it. Has anybody successfully backed up AND restored a windows filesystem with tar. ( I'm talking the whole "C:" drive ) If I ever screw up and let it gets infested with something, I'd like to know that I could boot linux from a lilo floppy, and: # shred /dev/hda1 # mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hda1 # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mountpoint # cd /mountpoint # tar -xzf tarfile.tgz . # lilo -b /dev/hda Reboot and select the win98 boot item. And actually have win98 running? But I suppose I might have to replace the mkdosfs line with booting from a win98 rescue floppy that has the win/dos version of fdisk and format on it(with LBA support...) Then reboot into linux and pick up with the mount command... But I would definitely like to use my trustwothy linux to archive my win89 file system. If this possible??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>>
