[ale] Fwd: Dell Continues Shipping Fresh Linux Laptops

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 02/03/2015 08:40 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 02/03/2015 01:09 AM, Steve Nicholas wrote:
>> OK, I had a Toshiba Satellite  that died an untimely death after 13
>> months.  Bought a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 series.  The 1GB is pegged
>> with the OS and recovery partitions.  Have several external HDs and
>> hopefully all of the backup stuff I need.  On the Toshiba, I had  a
>> Fedora system running.  What I'd like to is put it on an external disk
>> with the boot partition on hda1.  Anyone done this? I'm up for a
>> repartition on the fly using win8. Just a bit nervous about blowing
>> the Dell recover partition off. Thoughts, suggestions....
> not sure exactly what you are asking... I have 2 working Dell laptops, 1
> a very old XPS M-140 from 2005, still dual-booting linux / Windows XP.
> Once you install grub & linux, you lose the capability of restoring
> windows, so you either need a windows boot CD, or make an image of the
> disk before you mess with it. In linux, when you connect an external
> drive, it mounts it. if you look in /dev/disk/by-uuid ( ls-l
> /dev/disk/by-uuid) you can see the new drive & UUID. Yo can put that in
> /etc/fstab if you want to boot it..

fsarchive - backup every partition you might want. It is more flexible at
restore than any other option. You can restore to a smaller partition, assuming
it has room for the data.

IF you need to boot stuff saved, use something like clonezilla or partimage, to
create complete-disk backups.