[Debian-eeepc-devel] OT: backing up xandros before installing deb

[marcos.marado at sonae.com]

Hi there,

On Sunday 07 September 2008 16:38:53 Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> -=| Rick Welykochy, Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 06:27:41PM +1000 |=-
>
> > I'm planning to replace the xandros distro that came with my EEE 900
> > PC with the debian install.
>
> Of course :)
>
> > I think the best course of action is to first backup the entire
> > thing in case I want to restore the original system. I've created a
> > tarball 1.22 GB is size, simply by tarring the root file system, as
> > root.
>
> I think that is is not what you want. See the backup procedure in the
> wiki (as oz already mentioned).

Maybe that backup procedure could be replaced with a tip to install and use 
eeebackup[1], a tool specially made to easily backup your EEE PC...

[1] - http://www.glost.eclipse.co.uk/gfoot/eee/eeebackup/

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Marado