Good idea, Choppy. There are lots of utilities for rescue and recovery for Linux. I use "Tom's Root/Boot" disk, very small, very nice (http://www.toms.net/rb/). You may also want to look at "System->Recovery Tools" on freshmeat.net (http://freshmeat.net/browse/866/).
I think a good future topic would be backup systems and recovery using Linux. John Hebert --- Chopin Cusachs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had better experiences with the little Ditto > tape drive, though it can't > go beyond 1 GB compressed. Parallel port is slow, > but I don't mind a > three hour backup if it goes while I am in bed > sleeping. I can also use it > for the other computers around here, especially if I > can make it go under > Linux. Also have a parallel port 100 Mb ZIP drive, > as well as internal > ones in two boxes here. I like the Norton-Iomega > recovery system. > > One major problem with Windows systems is that a > really useful backup > must be able to run under DOS to restore a system > when Windows can't > boot. > > Hadn't thought of getting two, but may do that. > > Maybe sometime when we are short a program we could > get someone to > talk about rescue packages that boot from floppy, > set up a RAM disk, > and run tools from that. SPBLinux comes to mind as > a good example, > but the diskette produced by Windows98SE does so > also. That's it, > OS on diskette for troubleshooting and recovery -- > for title. > > Choppy > > At 07:31 AM 10/31/01 -0600, you wrote: > >Buy a cheap tape drive and that's what you'll get. > Several years ago I > >bought a Ditto 2Gig tape backup and that's was the > biggest piece of junk > >there ever was. I had to RMA it and get another > and it was junk too. After > >looking at mailing lists for that product I found > out that a lot of other > >people thought the same thing. I know I'll never > buy another Ditto product > >again. Guaranteed. Just my $0.02. Jeff > > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
