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multi platform disk imager by Jarrod on 09-17-2008 at 06:10 AM
so.. i have a virtual machine with free bsd on it the vm also has an other 8gb virtual drive attached to it, what i want to do is get some software to back up the bsd drive then run something that reads the same format on windows and extract the image to the second drive in my windows 98 machine then boot into bsd and remove the windows partition, anyone know any cross platform backup software i could use?
RE: multi platform disk imager by ShawnZ on 09-17-2008 at 06:13 AM
what VM software are you using?
RE: multi platform disk imager by Jarrod on 09-17-2008 at 06:21 AM
vmware workstation
RE: multi platform disk imager by ShawnZ on 09-17-2008 at 06:32 AM
vmware lets you mount vm hard drive images as actual drives...
RE: multi platform disk imager by Jarrod on 09-17-2008 at 06:42 AM
windows doesn't let me read drives which are not fat32/ntfs so it doesn't really achieve anything,
i need...
a way to image the bsd drive
a way to restore the image from dos or windows 98,
and i'll work the rest out when i get there
RE: multi platform disk imager by ShawnZ on 09-17-2008 at 06:47 AM
wait, so you want to move a VM to a physical computer?
RE: multi platform disk imager by Jarrod on 09-17-2008 at 07:14 AM
yes, the physical computer is running 98 no floppy, no cd, no usb support(unless u have the driver) even my usb floppy won't work, the only way i can get stuff onto it is via the network,
as the computer doesn't have any drives using a virtual machine made sence
RE: multi platform disk imager by ShawnZ on 09-17-2008 at 11:57 AM
why are you installing BSD of all operating systems? :/
RE: multi platform disk imager by Jarrod on 09-17-2008 at 11:58 AM
does it really matter?
lets pretend it's ubuntu
RE: multi platform disk imager by Jesus on 09-17-2008 at 12:23 PM
quote:how is that relevant to the question Jarrod was asking?
Originally posted by ShawnZ
why are you installing BSD of all operating systems? :/
anyway, back on topic.
you can assign your second physical drive/partition to your VM instead of a virtual drive. After that you can install "ubuntu" or any other OS to that drive, avoiding the need to copy your virtual drive image to your second drive.
Now, I'm going to assume that the second "drive" is actually a second partition on the same drive your win98 installation is on.
From this point, google for a way to add your new bsd partition to your boot.ini (or install another boot manager from windows(!) to avoid problems) to accomplish a dual boot configuration.
NOTE: make sure your bsd installation also supports your physical hardware, not just your virtual hardware.
RE: multi platform disk imager by Jarrod on 09-17-2008 at 12:26 PM
that was what i wanted to do but vmware won't run on win9x
also note win98 doesn't have a boot.ini
and i don't really want a dual boot but i have no other way of doing it