By the sounds of things when you formatted the drive - you didn't install
the operating system.
In order to do this you either need the 'sys' command; or the 'format'
command.
If you have 'sys' run: sys a: c:
If you have 'format' (no copy of 'sys') run: format c: /s
That way it will transfer the
I've done this very procedure on numerous machines, numerous times; and it
has worked perfectly every time. The only think that I must add is that
often if you haven't run LILO you can still have to recreate the master boot
record. And when you're using a boot disk, it can sometimes recreate it on
As an asside to the list, what's the chances of the /etc/init.d/network
scripts being replaced with something else? Long ago I hacked up a
script for slackware to read bits and pieces from a directory and use
that information to build the interfaces.
A group on -devel are discussing that very
If you have a boot disk which contains FDISK and FORMAT. Simply boot using
it. Use FDISK to remove all the partitions, then reboot. Reformat the
partition using DOS FORMAT, then use the command FDISK /MBR to recreate your
MASTER BOOT RECORD using the standard MS-DOS MBR. This will allow the drive
Scenario: my machine is on but hasn't been used for several hours when
I notice the hard drive taking lots of hits. I log on and run 'top'
which tells me a 'find', owned by root, is using 25% of the CPU. 'ps -ef',
even as root, doesn't show the 'find'.
Question: how do I figure out who started
you wrote on: 04 Feb 99 at 15:53 (received 05.02.99)
about : _Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy._
Whenever Apt fetches new packages, is there a way for it to save them
Yes, I believe so. Sorry, I don't know the exact syntax, but remember to
have read it with man apt-get. There is
I'm having troubles. I've just compiled the 2.2.1 kernel, and everything
seems to be okay when compiling. But, when I restart my machine, it
complains when it loads my modules. It says that my
/lib/modules/2.2.1/modules.dep is empty!
That file should have info on my ip_alias, cdrom, and nic..
Hi,
I am wondering what is the recommended way to secure a sizeable volume
(0.5-2GB
) of confidential data such that it is non-retreivable/unusable even in the
event that a hacker has gained user level or shudder root access?
I have thought of some kind of encryption; but I haven't seen anything
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