I have completed an article on mounting full disk images under Linux. Interesting stuff. My two port KVM switch from Belkin has arrived. I was worried the builtin cabling might have poor quality cables, but the VGA signal is still good. My USB mouse works fine via a PS/2 adapter. I have a PS/2 adapter on my five pin keyboard as well. Old stuff. My laptop has but a single PS/2 adapter, so I still have a USB mouse plugged into it. I need to look into getting a docking station for it. The KVM is switchless and uses a keyboard sequence to switch consoles. So far it hasn’t proven to be problematic, though it’s kind of cheap.

My 20GB disk arrived last week. Today, I took to installing it in the laptop. First, I made some drive images to play with and I’ll be completing a tutorial shortly on mounting entire disk images under Linux shortly. It’s quite an amusing site to place in a completely fresh disk, add the first primary partition back with the same cylinder locations as on the older disk, then dd the Windows 2000 partition image onto the new disk and watch Windows 2000 load happily. No reinstallation necessary. If only that trick would work when moving to a box with new hardware. Fun stuff. (No Windows ™ were broken or injured during this experiment.)