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Re: ghost for linux?



h iya max...

yeah...if i dd...have no plans to change it around....

donno...not everybody makes a bootable cdrom for their backups...
i think its nuts...to make a cdrom backup... but..oh well...


taring does NOT copy teh boot info...so your disk is NOT yet
bootable till you run lilo onit...
	- dd sometimes works...sometimes not....
	- hate them LI and LIL- and 101010101 patterns...
	- running lilo on the back and boting it is a good bet

c ya
alvin

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, MaD dUCK wrote:

> also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:16:26PM -0800):
> > except for partitions that are like 90% full than i dd' um....
> 
> ... at the expense of not being able to change partition size or file
> system format...
> 
> > and yeah...all of the "system" is already on cdrom.... but guess
> > some like to burn a "installed cdrom"... oh well...
> > 	- hopefuly thats patched and debugged and cleaned up version
> 
> you mean, a bootable cdrom?
> 
> > and always check your backs before putting it aside...
> > 	like "lilo" it...after dd'ing
> 
> huh? of course check your backups, but what is lilo'ing it? if it's a
> tar file and/or on cdrom???
> 
> martin
> 
> [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net
> -- 
> a life? where can i download that?
> 



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