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1. Pop in the Live CD, boot from it until you reach the desktop.\n2. Open a terminal window or switch to a tty.\n3. Type "grub"\n4. Type "root (hd0,6)", or whatever your harddisk + boot partition numbers are (my /boot is at /dev/sda7, which translates to hd0,6 for grub).\n5. Type "setup (hd0)", ot whatever your harddisk nr is.\n6. Quit grub by typing "quit".\n7. Reboot.

tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys /

Basically, use dd to clone your hard drive. The hard drive/partition you are cloning to will need to be formatted first. It's recommended you dd to an identical partition for optimal results. If you're upgrading to a larger hard drive, create a partition the same size as the old partition first, follow this guide then use the Live CD to resize the new partition. It is possible to dd a smaller partition into a larger partition, but results differ.

This HOWTO is about making a live CD/DVD from the main system on your hard drive. This might be desired if you have customized your system and want to have it on CD.

The goal of this howto is to have samba act like a Windows Workstation in the LAN. As a "value added bonus" we will use samba to do netbios name resolution so that you can use the names of the workstations for network drive mapping instead of their ip-addresses (i.e.: \MY_WINDOWS_BOX\SHARE) - but only for as long as your Linux box has an static ip-address and is up and running.