SPONSORED LINKS
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997 02:13:39 -0400, you wrote: >hi there, > >i do remember this question being asked a couple of times before, >but all my literature and references to the problem are floating >on the atlantic ocean, and i won't get them for a few weeks... >(i'm moving to the states from germany, if it sounds wild...) > >i have just been santa-claused with a 540MB harddrive, which is >a noticable improvement over the 340 i've got. >i have also just spent a whole afternoon trying to clone my win95- >setup to the new drive. (it was too muggy outside, and the office >is airconditioned, so it wasn't all that bad) > >what is the proper way to do this? i want to avoid setting >everything up again. i have pcmcia-ethernet and enough server-space. >i also have a parallel-port zip-drive, which takes i've sat through >3 transfers of 300MB, and i'm _not_ thrilled. > >problems, just to recap: >1) copying under dos or dos-mode i lose the long filenames, but >get registry and such. >the longfilename utility botched it for some reason, the new short >names didn't work out right - what should have been ~1 was ~2 and >so on. also it seemed to need a working w95 - go figure. >2) copying over the net saves long filenames, but i need the w95 >system up and running to support the network, not? that i can get >with the zip-drive, but then how do i get rid of the temporarily >installed w95? or can i copy the network-saved system over the >running w95? >maybe a second partition? but i don't want to partition a 540MB >drive - it's not _that_ large... > >i do want to mention though that these are the first such problems >i've had with w95; normally i'm quite satisfied. > >i may also just live with the small hard drive and use the new, improved >one for linux. soon. > >good night, > >axel Axel, Go to http://www.ghostsoft.com and download the 30-day trial of Ghost, a product for copying off OS/2, Win95, or WinNT setups. It is quickly becoming the standard for use by network administrators (like myself). We own a licensed copy for 25 workstations and will be buying more as more people go to Windows 95. Caveat: The demo version (1.69) doesn't handle Windows NT too well. The licensed version (2.22) does. I have had no problems with it. You can use it through LPT ports (haven't tried it yet), or from PC to server and back. Give it a shot. Good luck. Regards, Tom Kustner Tom Kustner Emjay Corporation System/LAN Administrator Glendale, WI 53209-6509 USA Any opinions are mine and not necessarily those of Emjay Corp.