On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:50:35PM +1100, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > G'day Pigeon, > | Don't forget to reinstall the bootloader. > That'll be tomorrows HOWTO to read ... "Lilo Bootloader HOWTO" > Hmmmm, no real reason for a bootloader for this, only 1 OS to boot to, > hmmm wonder if I can boot directly to /boot? Another HOWTO to read.
Nonono, you've got to have a bootloader to boot anything at all! Having only one OS to boot just makes the configuration easier. I'm not able to be much help with lilo/grub because I personally find it useful to boot to DOS and then run LOADLIN.EXE to boot Linux. This is not a very popular method. > | > | I take it by "image" you mean "all the files/directories/permissions > | and stuff" as opposed to something akin to a ISO9660 image of a CD? > Yes, looks like parted can do that, yes? Yet another HOWTO to read. Parted is for editing the partition table so you can do stuff like moving/resizing partitions, hopefully without losing the data on them. Because of the "hopefully", "it is advisable" to do a backup first. Parted can indeed copy a filesystem to a different partition, but in your setup you don't have any unused partitions to copy it onto. You could buy a second hard drive, install it as hdb, use parted to copy the hda filesystem onto it, take it out again and stick it in a cupboard so if hda fails you can swap in the spare drive and get going again. This is great for getting going again quickly after a hard drive failure, but sucks as a method of taking regular backups, which of course you will still need to do. With a 1GB partition, I personally wouldn't bother taking incremental backups. I'd just copy the whole thing, compressed, to a CD-ROM (or uncompressed to two). There are several methods of taking a copy of all the files/directories/permissions etc, such as tar and cp -a. Have a look in the list archives, there have been several different methods suggested over the past few weeks. Then you can use mkisofs to convert the snapshot to a CD-ROM image and cdrecord to burn it. In your setup, it looks like you would need to use a temporary directory on /home to hold the snapshot and CD-ROM image. I'm posting this back to the list so others can give their input. My methods are not necessarily the best! Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]