Giles Nunn said:
Hi all,
I tried the dd route to do exactly the same thing. I wanted to recreate
a server or a variation of it quickly and easily. Eventually I gave up
and used systemimager instead. It is quick and simple. It is based on
rsync and it is in woody. I have it working using
On Tue, 2004-07-27 18:42:09 +0200, Leonardo Boselli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Il 27 Jul 2004 alle 18:18 Jan-Benedict Glaw immise in rete
Try that with
a formerly booting NT system on a NTFS filesystem:) just copy the
root... by root i say /dev/hda , the raw
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:13:22 +0200, Volker Tanger writes:
What happens if you do the partitioning manually and image the
partitions (/dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, ...) one-by-one instead of the
complete disc? Well, doing the partitioning manually, you could RSYNC
the server instead of DD+NETCATing, which
Greetings!
Well, doing the partitioning manually, you could RSYNC
the server instead of DD+NETCATing, which probably is faster and
fails more gracefully.
But would mean mucking around with the bootloader, which usually is
the point for doing _complete_ disc-images.
True - but DDing a
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:05:14 +0200, Volker Tanger writes:
True - but DDing a 200GB system disc disc takes quite some time, while
manually handling partition+mkfs+lilo plus RSYNCing 1.2GB usually is
LOTS faster...
Upgrading to servers with newer/bigger discs is also less painful than
with
know how it goes.
Dave
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:13:22 +0200, Volker Tanger writes:
What happens if you do the partitioning
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:12:33 +0200 David Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[...]
Obviously the first thing I did was swap the
harddrive just in case the one in the new pc is faulty, but I get
Greetings!
Do you have any kind of BIOS-configurable write/virus protection
for that harddisc switched off?
BIOS is ignored nicely once the kernel switched on VM and went into
protected more...
Yes, I know - but I've encountered hardware where the 100% IDE
controller could be switched
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 04:09:04PM +0200, Volker Tanger wrote:
Boot in text mode (knoppix 2) or Ctrl-Alt-1 from X11 into console. Try
again then.
yes knoppix 2 will save time, you can su - from x as well.
your problem though is with the fstab knoppix creates, wait you're not
mounting the
On Tue, 2004-07-27 17:52:25 +0200, Leonardo Boselli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Il 27 Jul 2004 alle 17:42 Jan-Benedict Glaw immise in rete
I use knoppix to make a cpio image of the 'root filesystem' I'll be
imaging. (eg mounted / /usr /home and /var). Then with
Il 27 Jul 2004 alle 18:18 Jan-Benedict Glaw immise in rete
Try that with
a formerly booting NT system on a NTFS filesystem:) just copy the
root... by root i say /dev/hda , the raw partition. I worked fine
for me many times.
Aren't MS-DOS' io.sys and msdos.sys expected to be in specific
Hi all,
I tried the dd route to do exactly the same thing. I wanted to recreate
a server or a variation of it quickly and easily. Eventually I gave up
and used systemimager instead. It is quick and simple. It is based on
rsync and it is in woody. I have it working using network boot and it
takes
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