THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote in a message to ALL:

 TA> I used my "NTI Backup Now 3" to successfully full backup
 TA> the Windows 98se media in the C: and D: portion of the
 TA> partition in my Maxtor Fireball ATA/133 40 GB hard drive
 TA> in my Systemax Tiger 970553 P4 1.8 gHz system; but it
 TA> won't handle my linux SuSE 9.0 in the other partition.

 TA> I downloded the much touted "ESR-Backup-0.98b.5.tar.gz"
 TA> and unpacked it ok on the SuSE KDE desktop but can't
 TA> get it to either perform its full backup and/or it's
 TA> incremental backup.

 TA> I hope some SKS can send me the proper foreplay to make
 TA> "ESR-Backup" perform as advertized; or suggest some
 TA> alternative that this non-geek OT can help me  backup
 TA> the SuSE partition, so I can replace the over burdened
 TA> 40 GB with the new 160 GB waiting impatiantedly on my
 TA> bench.

I'm not familiar with that particular software package,  but copying a
linux partition isn't that hard to do.  Stick the new drive in there,  and
set up your non-linux partitions with those tools.  Boot the old drive into
linux, and use one of the "mkfs" commands (I use ext3 here) to
build a new filesystem where it's going to go,  and just copy everything
over.  If you have a rescue floppy for linux that you can boot instead then
you can have the new drive in there as primary,  the old one as secondary
or on the second channel,  and go from there.

The only thing that might give you a little trouble with this is your boot
loader.  If it's LILO,  then you need to run LILO with the new
configuration in place.  If it's grub,  I'm not sure what to tell you,  but
no doubt someone in the linux echo would know.

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