h iya max... yeah...if i dd...have no plans to change it around....
donno...not everybody makes a bootable cdrom for their backups... i think its nuts...to make a cdrom backup... but..oh well... taring does NOT copy teh boot info...so your disk is NOT yet bootable till you run lilo onit... - dd sometimes works...sometimes not.... - hate them LI and LIL- and 101010101 patterns... - running lilo on the back and boting it is a good bet c ya alvin On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:16:26PM -0800): > > except for partitions that are like 90% full than i dd' um.... > > ... at the expense of not being able to change partition size or file > system format... > > > and yeah...all of the "system" is already on cdrom.... but guess > > some like to burn a "installed cdrom"... oh well... > > - hopefuly thats patched and debugged and cleaned up version > > you mean, a bootable cdrom? > > > and always check your backs before putting it aside... > > like "lilo" it...after dd'ing > > huh? of course check your backups, but what is lilo'ing it? if it's a > tar file and/or on cdrom??? > > martin > > [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL > PROTECTED]@@@.net > -- > a life? where can i download that? >