Re: [expert] cloning hard drives

2000-12-20 Thread J. R. Pendley
J . A . Magallon wrote: > > On 2000.12.20 Rusty Carruth wrote: > > Bug Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Can I use DD to clone the entire hard drive? > > > > I have used 'cp -a' to clone a full mdk install. The only thing you have > to do is a boot diskette to boot cloned system th

Re: [expert] installing special files?

2000-09-14 Thread J. R. Pendley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ok well i finally got make installed it was missing, so here is a transcript > of what i tried > --CUT--SNIP-PART---> > but as you can see fan is a c file wich i think needs to be compiled > and the creater said to use ma

[expert] ? Loadlin --" not an image file" | OR| bootdisk script

2000-06-02 Thread J. R. Pendley
I have used loadlin before for booting from DOS/Windows as an emergency solution if lilo was wiped out ( other linux distributions) but when I tried the same thing for Mdk-7 I get the response from loadlin that the file I specified is not an image file. The file was a copy of vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk

[expert] missing module fb0 in 2.2.14-15mdkfb ?

2000-05-29 Thread J. R. Pendley
I installed Mandrake 7.0 on a laptop that needs the frame-buffer video driver. I followed the instructions in the small manual and downloaded the rpms for the kernel and XFree86 for frame-buffer and installed the RPMs. I modified lilo and also modified the X-server config file by the manual. I che