Well Ghost is not just for the Windows world. It certainly handles
ext2. You may like to contact me off list for more specific info on
that.
There is also partimage, which I think is supposed to handle Reiser and
maybe others. I couldn't get it to recognise any of mine though, but I
didn't perservere beyond a quick look.
Brian
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 16:44, James wrote:
> Ok I took the plunge and bought a monster drive today. Which means 3 4 gig and one
>6 gig drive can semi retire (one retired itself that's why I took the plunge) What
>I'm hoping is that there is a way to clone the drive that has my / and /boot
>partitions. (I'm keeping the 6 as /home for myself alone) In the windwoze world
>there is ghost. Is there anything like that in Linux? Searches on Freshmeat and
>google haven't turned up anything in English. (or even french or german that I can
>half way muddle through) Anyone here have an answer to how to clone the drive so that
>I do not have to reconfigure/install the whole mess (*grin*) all over again. I'm
>kinda racing the clock on this drive as it's about 4 years old and starting to get a
>bit cranky.
>
> James
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:52:22 -0600
> Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can use ppp being root on my Mandrake 8.2 RC1 box, but not from
> > user accounts. I am using wvdial. I was able to do this before I
> > upgraded from 8.1, but I do not remember what I did to make it work
> > from user accounts on 8.1. I have tried this:
> >
> > a+rx /usr/sbin/{pppd,chat}
> > chmod a+rw /dev/tts/LT0 (My Lucent based WinModem)
> > chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
> >
> > but it doesn't work. I get the message:
> >
> > "Cannot open /dev/modem: Device or resource busy" using wvdial from
> > user accounts.
> >
> > What am I missing?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > --
> > Christian Dysthe
> > http://www.dysthe.net
> > ICQ: 3945810
> > Registered Linux User #228949
> >
> > "Everybody ought to have a Lower East Side
> > in their life"
> >
> > -Irving Berlin-
> >
> >
>
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