Re: [g4u-help] g4u on Dell Optiplex 760

2009-07-19 Thread Robert L Cochran
Well you can always add a supported network card to the system that will be configured. Bob Cochran On 07/12/2009 02:31 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I am having some trouble with these new Dell systems. The CPU is, as far as I can tell, a Pentium M Dothan E8400 wolfdale. G4u 2.3 and 2.2

[g4u-help] NetBSD 5 On USB Flash Drive -- Get G4U On It

2009-07-19 Thread Robert L Cochran
I just succeeded in installing netBSD 5 on a 2 Gb, USB flash drive. I can boot from the drive. I did make a little mistake with useradd, I don't seem to have a home directory as an ordinary user. Maybe I can add a different user and get the home directory specified properly when I do it. I

[g4u-help] [Fwd: Re: Cloning an Seagate ST34573W Hard Drive]

2009-06-20 Thread Robert L Cochran
Ooops, I had sent this to Hubert rather than the list. I apologize. Bob --- On 06/19/2009 02:36 AM, Hubert Feyrer wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote: To get the drive cloned

Re: [g4u-help] Cloning an Seagate ST34573W Hard Drive

2009-06-18 Thread Robert L Cochran
a cheap SCSI card and throw it in a new system. Maybe that will help? ext Robert L Cochran wrote: I'm still trying to clone a Seagate ST34573W (Barracuda 9LP family) SCSI hard drive, and finding it tough to do. It is no fault of G4U. The drive is installed on an Asus P2B motherboard

Re: [g4u-help] Recovering Very Old SCO OpenServer 5 System

2009-06-14 Thread Robert L Cochran
Feyrerhub...@feyrer.de Cc: g4u-helpg4u-help@feyrer.de Fecha: viernes, 12 junio, 2009, 11:54 pm On 06/12/2009 10:35 PM, Hubert Feyrer wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote: Can G4U work with so little system memory? Sure, 64MB is plenty. Can it also

[g4u-help] Recovering Very Old SCO OpenServer 5 System

2009-06-12 Thread Robert L Cochran
I have a really old (built prior to 2002 I believe) Acer Aopen system with a Pentium II processor and 64 Mb of system memory. The system runs SCO OpenServer 5 (If I remember from the quick glance...version 5.0.0) on a 4 Gb Seagate SCSI hard drive. The system was custom built on using an Asus

Re: [g4u-help] Recovering Very Old SCO OpenServer 5 System

2009-06-12 Thread Robert L Cochran
On 06/12/2009 10:35 PM, Hubert Feyrer wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote: Can G4U work with so little system memory? Sure, 64MB is plenty. Can it also detect this rather old hard drive? SCSI is not rather old. Question is if your SCSI controller is recognized, but why

Re: [g4u-help] Rescue Older Western Digital WD200 (20 Gb)

2007-10-05 Thread Robert L Cochran
edition series with extra cache, but since this is a recovery operation for one, and two you don't know if it will really work, I'd try very hard to match exact models. Matt Smollinger Application Engineer for Convergence Tech. AdvancedAV ATG From: Robert L Cochran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date

Re: [g4u-help] Rescue Older Western Digital WD200 (20 Gb)

2007-09-21 Thread Robert L Cochran
. If it doesn't work, you're only out a few bucks. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert L Cochran Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 8:21 PM To: g4u-help Subject: [g4u-help] Rescue Older Western Digital WD200 (20 Gb) A friend's Western

[g4u-help] Rescue Older Western Digital WD200 (20 Gb)

2007-09-20 Thread Robert L Cochran
A friend's Western Digital WD200 drive crashed. The system BIOS does not see the drive. This means software won't see the drive either. It is like the drive motor has burned out or perhaps a voltage regulator has gone. My question is, does this type of drive failure indicate a possible bad

Re: [g4u-help] G4u hangs during boot on Intel DG965WF

2007-09-03 Thread Robert L Cochran
Is this g4u version 2.3 or 2.4alpha? What hard drives are on the motherboard? Are they EIDE or SATA? (wd0 would be for an EIDE drive, right? I could be wrong here.) Thanks Bob Cochran David Bell wrote: G4u hangs during boot-up Last 5 lines of boot-up screen: md0: internal 2300

[g4u-help] [Fwd: RE: G4u hangs during boot on Intel DG965WF]

2007-09-03 Thread Robert L Cochran
: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:44:57 -0700 From: David Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Robert L Cochran' [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry...slip

Re: [g4u-help] g4u local copy problem

2007-08-06 Thread Robert L Cochran
700 Mb and a spontaneous reboot? This sounds to me like possible cpu overheating, a bad power supply, or poorly seated memory modules. I have these suggestions: 1. Check that the power supply is working properly. A failed bad power supply is the source of numerous problems. Use a power supply

Re: [g4u-help] g4u local copy problem

2007-08-06 Thread Robert L Cochran
could very easily cause a fire and will in any case destroy the system. Bob Cochran Robert L Cochran wrote: 700 Mb and a spontaneous reboot? This sounds to me like possible cpu overheating, a bad power supply, or poorly seated memory modules. I have these suggestions: 1. Check

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-30 Thread Robert L Cochran
Adam, My experience with g4u 2.3 is only with the copydisk command, but I agree with Matt that performance can be variable. I've used g4u to copy drives on several machines and the best performance I've had, so far, with copydisk seems to be with two EIDE hard drives connected by IDE cables

Re: [g4u-help] Local Copy Help

2007-07-30 Thread Robert L Cochran
Hubert Feyrer wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: For a laptop, transferring data with COPYDISK over USB 1.1 with 4200 rpm ^^^ There's your problem. USB1.1 is known to be dog slow. - Hubert Yes. You could take the source disk out of the laptop and connect it to a 2.5

[g4u-help] Cloning 359 Gb Drive to 120 Gb Drive

2007-06-02 Thread Robert L Cochran
I would like to clone my 359 Gb SATA drive to a smaller 120 Gb EIDE drive. The larger drive is only 19% used (62 of 359 Gb) according to df. Yes, I'm using Linux -- actually Fedora Core 5. I know from reading the g4u documentation that trying to clone a larger sized drive to a smaller one is

[g4u-help] G4U Over USB

2007-03-13 Thread Robert L Cochran
I want to put a spare 2.5 inch hard drive into a USB hard drive enclosure and plug this into a laptop. Then I want to boot to g4u and `copydisk' from the laptop's hard drive to the spare hard drive in the USB enclosure. Will this work? Thanks Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

Re: [g4u-help] G4U Over USB

2007-03-13 Thread Robert L Cochran
Hubert Feyrer wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Robert L Cochran wrote: I want to put a spare 2.5 inch hard drive into a USB hard drive enclosure and plug this into a laptop. Then I want to boot to g4u and `copydisk' from the laptop's hard drive to the spare hard drive in the USB enclosure

Re: [g4u-help] No Disks Detected

2007-03-10 Thread Robert L Cochran
Jonathan, I'm pretty new to using g4u myself, and I've never used it on a RAID array. Do you know the name of the RAID controller? For example is this an Adaptec or Promise RAID controller? Or are you using software RAID? What operating system are you using? While I've never used g4u with

[g4u-help] G4U Image Encryption

2007-02-04 Thread Robert L Cochran
Can g4u encrypt a hard drive image before transmitting it over the network? Thanks Bob Cochran Maryland, USA - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with