Re: [gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup

2003-12-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 22:32, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > I got that same error. I guess we're both mind-numbingly stupid ;) You can just > answer > 'yes' there to have it use a failsafe kernel. OK, I found that also later last evening. Answer yes and then I get the main GUI and could play around

Re: [gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup

2003-12-30 Thread Alan
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:37:00AM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Andrew Gaffney wrote: > >I just emerge'd mondo. I'm playing around with it. I've tried running > >'mondoarchive' a number of times without success. I'm running it from > >the live filesystem. The first time it bombed out saying som

Re: [gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Andrew Gaffney wrote: I just emerge'd mondo. I'm playing around with it. I've tried running 'mondoarchive' a number of times without success. I'm running it from the live filesystem. The first time it bombed out saying something about /etc/lilo.conf not existing. I use grub, so I just did 'touch

Re: [gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 21:24, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Have you actually run mondoarchive yet? I'm interested to hear from someone who has used it successfully under Gentoo. I guess I need to rebuild my kernel... bash-2.05b# mondoarchive Initializing... See /var/log/mondo-archi

Re: [gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 21:24, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Have you actually run mondoarchive yet? I'm interested to hear from someone who has > used > it successfully under Gentoo. I guess I need to rebuild my kernel... bash-2.05b# mondoarchive Initializing... See /var/log/mondo-archive.log for det

Re: [gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 21:24, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > I never created /boot/grub/menu.lst since I wasn't planning on using any older > versions of > grub. So I symlinked /etc/grub.conf to /boot/grub/grub.conf which is an actual file > instead of a symlink to /boot/grub/menu.lst. > > Have you

Re: [gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 20:41, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 19:48, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I just emerge'd mondo. I'm playing around with it. I've tried running 'mondoarchive' a number of times without success. I'm running it from the live files

Re: [gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 20:41, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Are you going to back up to tape or CD? I am going to back up to ISO images over the network to a Windows shared drive and then burn the ISO's to CD. Cool. Before I reboot, have I created any problems? Like you I use grub. T

Re: [gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 20:41, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 19:48, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > > >>I just emerge'd mondo. I'm playing around with it. I've tried running > >>'mondoarchive' a > >>number of times without success. I'm running it from the live file

Re: [gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 20:41, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > Are you going to back up to tape or CD? > > I am going to back up to ISO images over the network to a Windows shared drive and > then > burn the ISO's to CD. Cool. Before I reboot, have I created any problems? Like you I use grub. This eme

Re: [gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 19:48, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I just emerge'd mondo. I'm playing around with it. I've tried running 'mondoarchive' a number of times without success. I'm running it from the live filesystem. The first time it bombed out saying something about /etc/lilo.con

Re: [gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 19:48, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > I just emerge'd mondo. I'm playing around with it. I've tried running 'mondoarchive' > a > number of times without success. I'm running it from the live filesystem. The first > time > it bombed out saying something about /etc/lilo.conf not ex

[gentoo-user] using mondo-rescue to perform full backup

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I just emerge'd mondo. I'm playing around with it. I've tried running 'mondoarchive' a number of times without success. I'm running it from the live filesystem. The first time it bombed out saying something about /etc/lilo.conf not existing. I use grub, so I just did 'touch /etc/lilo.conf'. It a