Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: > > >> Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and >> could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so >> something to boot from would be nice. >> > > Yes, that can be done. Mondorescue makes the first backup CD bootable, > using a mini kernel and distro called mindi. > You can even restore an entire system from scratch, using the "barebones > (nuke) restore". Read the docs for more info. >
Well, this sucks. > >>> Downloading 'http://adelie.polymtl.ca/distfiles/mindi-1.10.tgz' > --07:14:12-- http://adelie.polymtl.ca/distfiles/mindi-1.10.tgz > => `/usr/portage/distfiles/mindi-1.10.tgz' > Resolving adelie.polymtl.ca... 132.207.4.160 > Connecting to adelie.polymtl.ca|132.207.4.160|:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content > Length: 2,130,907 (2.0M), 1,026,811 (1003K) remaining [application/x-gzip] > > 100%[+++++++++++++++++++++++++========================>] > 2,130,907 2.71K/s ETA 00:00 > > 07:20:29 (2.67 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/mindi-1.10.tgz' saved > [2130907/2130907] > > * checking ebuild checksums ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * checking auxfile checksums ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * checking miscfile checksums ;-) > ... [ ok ] > * checking mindi-1.10.tgz ;-) > ... [ !! ] > > !!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found: > '/usr/portage/distfiles/mindi-1.10.tgz' > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Seems there may be a reason it is masked. I restarted it to see if it was a connection boo boo but it ain't looking good right now. May have to try a older version maybe. Notice that super fast data transfer speed of 2.71K/s. Swift huh? Stupid dial-up. What cha think about this? Dale :-) :-) :-)
