In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb.
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on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 03:07:55 -0400
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> On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:51:09 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Asus officially announces Eee Box details
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> Have the blogs offering step by step instructions on how to remove Linux
> and install Windows surfaced yet?
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> They will....
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If one knows Linux, has done his homework and has
sufficient outside storage space, that's trivial.
[1] dd if=/dev/hda | gzip > /outside/hda.img.gz
[2] Install Linux, repartition, do whatever you want.
[3] When done, gunzip < /outside/hda.img.gz | dd of=/dev/hda
and everything's hunkydory.
Of course that procedure has three problems: (a) It
requires knowledge of Linux commands, (b) it assumes
one has external storage space, and (c) it's a physical
backup, as opposed to a logical one, and therefore cannot
be reliably transferred to a differently-sized partition.
A fourth problem in this context is (d) one has to have
an initial running Windows system.
For a Windows utility one might try things such as Norton Ghost,
which I'm not personally familiar with but seems to do the job
for our IT folk.
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