On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 00:11, Bob Stia <rnr@sanctum.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 03 December 2009 18:20:42 Chuck Hast wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 08:28, Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> OK, foks,
>> here is what I have done, I removed sda7, I moved EVERYTHING up into the
>> upper part of the HD, I left over 300G of space down at the bottom.
>>
>> Now I went to the Netbootk ( Lenovo S10) and I used the backup and save
>> took to create two DVD's to build a new system, it is supposed to allow you
>> to either re-load the system on the HD that is installed or it is supposed
>> to allow you to lay the backup on new HD in the event the old one fails.
>> Well after spending a lot of time and going through all of this, I fired up
>> the first DVD, it actually boots to that DVD, and allowed to set there and
>> crank. If found the 300+G of disk space, and when I told it to put the
>> whole thing there it came back and said there was not enough space. So now
>> I have go to figure out what else would be a good solution and would allow
>> me to put the windows stuff on my 500G HD.
>>
>> I create and put the windows junk on the first partition on the HD, the
>> original disk has 3 partitions, partition 1 is VFAT, it is where the
>> bootable system resides, partition 2 is extended, inside of it are two more
>> partitions which are NTFS, one of the has the Lenovo utilities on it, and
>> the other is the backup disk, I am going to try to get it all working, I am
>> just trying to figure out what
>> is the best way to move each fs to it's new location on the 500G hd, since
>> the restore function does not work appears that the HD has to be exactly
>> the same size as the original...
>
> Chuck,
>
> What is the tool that you are using to move this stuff? dd? rsync? If it is
> dd it can be the same size or a little larger, but then the extra space is
> lost. If you are using rsync you can move it partition by partition to
> anything larger than it was on with no loss. Don't know why it is telling
> you there is not enough space. You are treading in dangerous territory and
> may lose everything unless you are very careful. If I were you I would just
> leave everything the way it is and create a virtual system for Windows on
> your Linux box, especially if you won't be using it that much.
>
Bob, I have the original 160G HD that was on the netboot, what I am doing
(Indeed I have done it now) is copying the 160G HD to my 500G HD which
is what I really use. What I did was pull down a Acronis product and used
it to move the whole thing over to the 500G disk. I first used dd, which copied
(very slow) the whole thing over but when I tried to start windows, it comp-
lained that hal.dll was corrupt, I replaced it and got the same thing so I just
reformated the partition and used Acronis to move it, that took care of it,
As to using a VM, I am not sure that the Atom processor has the horsepower
to run the VM at the speed I would need for the oscilloscope display Under
Windows it is already somewhat short on horsepower, especially when I
ask it to display the analog trace along with the DSO traces (there are 8
channels of logic and 1 channel of analgo) it is not a big deal you just have
some hysteresis that you have to take into account. The manufacturer is
trying to do a Linux gui, if any of you are looking for a small USB based
scope, this is a nice solution for the price and I figure that the more people
that call and make it known that they are looking for a Linux solution the
faster they will get it done.
The only product out there that I have found which has a Linux GUI is Bit-
scope, but the have two strikes against them for what I want, price and the
fact that the device needs separate power, when I am inside a machine I
do not need to be looking around for a outlet, particularly when the last thing
that machine may have on it is 110v AC.
I was looking at the Splashtop fast boot which is based on Linux, appears
that the Splashtop people are looking at a way to allow one to add more
apps to the Splashtop desktop. I told the people I purchased the oscope
from about this, the software guy was VERY interested, as I pointed out
if they had their software on the Splashtop, I would have a working oscope
in seconds after starting up the machine. That maybe the push that gets
them to get the linux software done.
-- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- To paraphrase my flight instructor; "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal."----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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