Ola list, I've decided windows deserved even less space then what it has now on my 60GB hard disk. Before stating the actual bit shifting procedure I'd like to have a cloned backup of my HD.
The whole story sums up to 2 things : 1. I'm backing up into a windows based storage. Meaning I can use either ftp, smb or specific client software that will be installed on the windows server (cygwin, or dedicated backup server). 2. I have a rather new network hardware, not supported by the vast majority of the live cds. 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Agere Systems ET-131x PCI-E Ethernet Controller 05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection The current bootable OS's on the laptop are Ubuntu 6.10 & XP. First I've tried g4l v0.21 [1] but that completely fails to identify my network cards. In case you we're wondering - No, it does not include gcc (not to speak about kernel headers) and it runs 2.6.17. Then I gave a shot at g4u 2.3beta3 [2], here netbsd managed to identify my WiFi card, but gave some warning's about "Unable to load firmware file". I then tried to assign it the proper ssid and get the device into "up" which didn't work either. I might be doing something wrong here and would appreciate if someone could tip me on how should I request dhcp offer in the bsd world, it has the dhclient application but doing a simple dhclient ipw0 doesn't seem to do much. I am aware of the "from within" dd solution: dd if=/dev/hda bs=1k conv=sync,noerror | gzip -c | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] "gzip -d | dd of=/dev/hda bs=1k" but I wouldn't go this way because it's reading the actual storage while the system writes stuff - not good. Besides, what if I really do need to restore? I this case I still need a live cd that would identify my laptop's Wifi/lan device. There are those "traditional" backups : bacula, amanda & backuppc (apt-cache search backup for lots more). But this is a slow and boring process - In case of recovery I will need to install both my windows and linux machines to do the restore. I'd thank anyone with a creative / original idea to my situation. I wouldn't mind creating my own g4u cd, if someone could explain how I go with adding additional (linux) drivers[3] into the bsd kernel. The ultimate goal making a ghosted copy of my harddisk, _over the network_! AKA, without pulling the harddisk out and connecting it with a usb cable, hack it's 2007 after all... [4] Thank you, Maxim. [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l [2] http://fbim.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/ [3] http://sourceforge.net/projects/et131x [4] http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/30/2327232 -- Cheers, Maxim Veksler "Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
